Sri Lanka has requested Japan present 6,00,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine in an try to finish administering the second dose to residents.
Sri Lanka is going through a extreme scarcity of AstraZeneca vaccines because the producer within the neighbouring India failed to offer the promised inventory as a result of disaster in that nation.
On Wednesday, the president’s workplace introduced that president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa requested Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiihide Suga present 6,00,000 doses of AstraZeneca.
The request “has been met with positive responses,” based on a press release from the president’s workplace. Sri Lanka is presently utilizing China’s Sinopharm and Rusian Sputnik V vaccines.
Sri Lanka has witnessed a rise of constructive circumstances and deaths since April, partly attributable to celebrations and buying throughout final month’s conventional new 12 months pageant. Sri Lanka has registered greater than 2,10,000 circumstances and 1,843 confirmed deaths.