{"id":117136,"date":"2021-08-15T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117136"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T22:00:27","slug":"chinese-pharma-company-to-set-up-covid-19-vaccine-plant-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/15\/chinese-pharma-company-to-set-up-covid-19-vaccine-plant-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese pharma company to set up Covid-19 vaccine plant in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>China and Sri Lanka are set to deepen their bilateral vaccine diplomacy\u201d with a leading Chinese pharma company preparing to set up a manufacturing plant to make anti-Covid jabs in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s home district, Hambantota<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new plant will be set up under an agreement that will allow Colombo to source nine million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Chinese pharma company that sets it up, Sri Lankan ambassador to China, Palitha Kohona, told the Hindustan Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A deal between Sri Lanka\u2019s State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), a state-owned enterprise, and China\u2019s Sinovac Biotech is fairly close to completion,\u201d Kohana said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be set up in the dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing zone [in Hambantota],\u201d the Sri Lankan envoy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sinovac vaccine is one of the two Chinese jabs approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) under its emergency-use listing\u201d; the other being from state-owned Sinopharm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development comes months after India gifted 500,000 doses of the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Colombo, which kicked off Sri Lanka\u2019s vaccine roll-out in late January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror China and Sri Lanka are set to deepen their bilateral vaccine diplomacy\u201d with a leading Chinese pharma company preparing to set up a manufacturing plant to make anti-Covid jabs in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s home district, Hambantota The new plant will be set up under an agreement that will allow Colombo to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117136","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=117136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}