{"id":113037,"date":"2021-03-27T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113037"},"modified":"2021-03-27T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T00:28:48","slug":"china-says-majority-of-sinopharm-vaccines-for-local-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/27\/china-says-majority-of-sinopharm-vaccines-for-local-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"China says ma\u00adjor\u00adity of Sinopharm vac\u00adcines for lo\u00adcal cit\u00adi\u00adzens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Darshana<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Sanjeewa<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka will re\u00adceive 600,000 doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm vac\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtions on March 31 and pri\u00ador\u00adity will be given for Sri Lankan cit\u00adi\u00adzens when ad\u00admin\u00adis\u00adter\u00ading the vac\u00adcines while only 1 per\u00adcent of the to\u00adtal amount to be de\u00adliv\u00adered will be for Chi\u00adnese na\u00adtion\u00adals re\u00adsid\u00ading here, an of\u00adfi\u00adcial from the Chi\u00adnese Em\u00adbassy in Sri Lanka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Em\u00adbassy of\u00adfi\u00adcial told the Daily Mir\u00adror that the vac\u00adcines were a do\u00adna\u00adtion to the Sri Lankan govern\u00adment from China and it was the Sri Lankan govern\u00adment who of\u00adfered the vac\u00adcines to the Chi\u00adnese na\u00adtion\u00adals re\u00adsid\u00ading in the coun\u00adtry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s Sinopharm vac\u00adcine is pro\u00adduced by the China Na\u00adtional Biotec Group (CNBG) \u2013 a sub\u00adsidiary of China Na\u00adtional Phar\u00adma\u00adceu\u00adti\u00adcal Group Cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion. Clin\u00adi\u00adcal tri\u00adals run by the Sinopharm showed that it had an ef\u00adfi\u00adcacy rate of 79 per\u00adcent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How\u00adever the Sinopharm has run into con\u00adtro\u00adversy in the coun\u00adtry af\u00adter State Min\u00adis\u00adter of Pro\u00adduc\u00adtion, Sup\u00adply and Reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of Phar\u00adma\u00adceu\u00adti\u00adcals Prof. Channa Jaya\u00adsumana said re\u00adcently that it had re\u00adceived ap\u00adproval for emer\u00adgency use by the NMRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How\u00adever this ap\u00adproval is yet to be of\u00adfi\u00adcially con\u00adveyed to the State Phar\u00adma\u00adceu\u00adti\u00adcal Cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion who is the main in\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion plac\u00ading or\u00adders with coun\u00adtries to pur\u00adchase the vac\u00adcines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darshana\u00a0Sanjeewa\u00a0Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka will re\u00adceive 600,000 doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm vac\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtions on March 31 and pri\u00ador\u00adity will be given for Sri Lankan cit\u00adi\u00adzens when ad\u00admin\u00adis\u00adter\u00ading the vac\u00adcines while only 1 per\u00adcent of the to\u00adtal amount to be de\u00adliv\u00adered will be for Chi\u00adnese na\u00adtion\u00adals re\u00adsid\u00ading here, an of\u00adfi\u00adcial from the Chi\u00adnese Em\u00adbassy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113037","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=113037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}