{"id":114535,"date":"2021-05-25T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114535"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:36:37","slug":"cabinet-nod-to-purchase-14-mn-sinopharm-and-1-mn-astrazeneca-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/25\/cabinet-nod-to-purchase-14-mn-sinopharm-and-1-mn-astrazeneca-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet nod to purchase 14 mn Sinopharm and 1 mn AstraZeneca jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government says it has planned to vaccinate 60 to 70 percent of the country\u2019s population against coronavirus by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d91\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dad\u0dca \u0db8\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1 15\u0d9a\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd3\u0db8\u0da7 \u0d9a\u0dd0\u0db6\u0dd2\u0db1\u0da7\u0dca \u0d85\u0db1\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SHrckaa5K08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Government Information stated the need for the expedited supply of vaccines has been recognized as there is no other solution to control the COVID-19 pandemic other than inoculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers has granted the approval for a proposal to take necessary steps for the immediate purchase of 14 million doses of the China-manufactured Sinopharm vaccine and 01 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal has been tabled at the Cabinet by Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The government says it has planned to vaccinate 60 to 70 percent of the country\u2019s population against coronavirus by the end of 2021. The Department of Government Information stated the need for the expedited supply of vaccines has been recognized as there is no other solution to control the COVID-19 pandemic other than [&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-114535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114535","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=114535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}