{"id":106856,"date":"2020-09-21T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106856"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T23:55:09","slug":"sri-lankas-ambassador-to-russia-plans-getting-vaccinated-with-sputnik-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/21\/sri-lankas-ambassador-to-russia-plans-getting-vaccinated-with-sputnik-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ambassador to Russia Plans Getting Vaccinated With Sputnik V"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Sputnik<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW (Sputnik) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ambassador to Moscow Meegahalande Durage Lamawansa said on Monday he planned getting inoculated with Russia&#8217;s vaccine against COVID-19, dubbed Sputnik V, in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am ready to receive Sputnik V vaccine in the near future, as soon as I come back from Sri Lanka. The vaccine is now going through Phase 3 trials, I would be happy to take part in it&#8221;, Lamawansa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;As a doctor, I want to add that although some countries have recently recorded some decrease in the spreading of COVID-19, the global community should remain vigilant and unite effort to establish full control over the new infection&#8221;, the ambassador noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia became the first country to register a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/202009151080463922-germany-wants-more-information-about-russian-covid-19-vaccine-health-minister-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">vaccine against the virus<\/a>\u00a0that causes COVID-19 in early August. The country has since reached agreements with more than 20 countries to deliver over a billion doses of the vaccine and agreements with five nations for the mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Russian health ministry, Sputnik V is safe and has proven to be capable of building immunity against the virus. The vaccine is yet to complete the required Phase 3 of clinical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ambassador to Moscow Meegahalande Durage Lamawansa said on Monday he planned getting inoculated with Russia&#8217;s vaccine against COVID-19, dubbed Sputnik V, in the near future. &#8220;I am ready to receive Sputnik V vaccine in the near future, as soon as I come back from Sri Lanka. The vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}