{"id":117685,"date":"2021-08-31T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117685"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:43:08","slug":"sri-lanka-sets-highest-single-day-record-by-administering-more-than-550000-doses-over-20-million-jabs-administered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/31\/sri-lanka-sets-highest-single-day-record-by-administering-more-than-550000-doses-over-20-million-jabs-administered\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka sets highest single-day record by administering more than 550,000 doses; Over 20 million jabs administered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, August 31 (newsin.asia) \u2013 A record 571,589 COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Sri Lanka yesterday (30) making it the highest number of doses to be provided in a single day in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, a total of&nbsp;20 million (20,126,990) jabs have been administered as of today (31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breakdown of the vaccines administered on Monday (30) below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covishield \u2013 AstraZeneca: 11,951 persons were inoculated with the first dose and 653 persons with its second dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinopharm: 48,280 persons were inoculated with the first dose and 488,158 persons with the second dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pfizer: 12 persons inoculated with the first dose and 1,662 persons with the second dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderna: 16 persons were inoculated with the first dose of while 20,857 persons have been inoculated with the second dose.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 31 (newsin.asia) \u2013 A record 571,589 COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Sri Lanka yesterday (30) making it the highest number of doses to be provided in a single day in the country.&nbsp; Reportedly, a total of&nbsp;20 million (20,126,990) jabs have been administered as of today (31). Breakdown of the vaccines administered [&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-117685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117685","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=117685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}