{"id":110400,"date":"2021-01-05T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110400"},"modified":"2021-01-05T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:17:21","slug":"cabinet-nods-for-sri-lanka-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-through-covax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/05\/cabinet-nods-for-sri-lanka-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-through-covax\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet nods for Sri Lanka to receive COVID-19 vaccine through COVAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet approves a proposal to enter into agreements with COVID-19 vaccine producers under the COVAX facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVAX facility is a global initiative that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure equal distribution among the countries, subsequently to the manufacturing of secure and effective COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this facility, the production and development of the vaccines for the COVID-19 are being accelerated and the eventual reach of the COVID-19 vaccine to every country in the world is ensured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has already joined with the COVAX facility; and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), which also includes the World Health Organization, has accredited that Sri Lanka is eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccines through this facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries are informed to submit vaccine request applications under two phases to receive the vaccine facility and the first part and part A which includes the information regarding the target group, store capacity, and technical information was submitted by Sri Lanka before the deadline on 07th December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part thereof regarding the receiving of vaccines and signing the compensatory agreement has to submit before 08th January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the proposal tabled by the Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi the Cabinet granted its approval to submit part B of the vaccine application according to the guidelines provided by the Attorney General and to sign an agreement with the manufacturer when allocating vaccines through the COVAX facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet approves a proposal to enter into agreements with COVID-19 vaccine producers under the COVAX facility. The COVAX facility is a global initiative that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure equal distribution among the countries, subsequently to the manufacturing of secure and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Through this facility, the production and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110400","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=110400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}