{"id":114481,"date":"2021-05-23T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114481"},"modified":"2021-05-23T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:03:20","slug":"state-pharmaceuticals-corporation-of-sri-lanka-secures-32mn-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/23\/state-pharmaceuticals-corporation-of-sri-lanka-secures-32mn-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka secures 32mn doses of COVID-19 vaccines: Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 22 (Daily Mirror) \u2013 The State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) has been able to secure 32 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Sri Lanka, SPC Chairman Dr Prasanna Gunasena said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this during a meeting held with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and other officials at the Presidential Secretariat today.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Gunasena said according to the Epidemiology Unit, a total of 29 million doses are required to vaccinate population above 20 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 13 million doses of Sputnik-V, 5 million doses of Pfizer and 14 million doses of Sinopharm vaccines have been secured,\u201d Dr Gunasena said.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These vaccines are expected to arrive before December 31 this year. It should be noted that we have secured additional doses of three million,\u201d he underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the US State Department is to give 2-5 million doses of AstraZeneca out of which 600,000 doses are expected to come by June. Also, a stock of 300,000 Pfizer vaccines would arrive in July,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as delivery schedule is concerned, 100,000 of Sputnik-V and 500,000 of Sinopharm vaccines are expected to arrive next Monday while one million doses of Sputnik-V and three million of Sinopharm are expected to be delivered in the month of June,\u201d Dr Gunasena added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 22 (Daily Mirror) \u2013 The State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) has been able to secure 32 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Sri Lanka, SPC Chairman Dr Prasanna Gunasena said. He said this during a meeting held with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and other officials at the Presidential Secretariat today. [&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-114481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481","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=114481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}