China will gift Sri Lanka another 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine. This was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry of China to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Beijing, Dr. Palitha Kohona on 19 May 2021. Previously, China gifted a batch of 600,000 doses to Sri Lanka which is being used currently in Sri Lanka. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Beijing will coordinate the air freighting of these 500,000 doses of vaccine to Sri Lanka as soon as they are received. The first consignment of the 14 million doses of vaccine will be released by Sinopharm soon.
