COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka is currently facing issues with sourcing the AstraZeneca vaccine, especially from the Serum Institute in India. “We are looking at Sinopharm as the government’s priority is to vaccine more people at the earliest. Sri Lanka still awaiting 600,000 AstraZeneca COVISHIELD doses to be administered as the second dose for Sri Lankans who already received the first jab, he said. Only 300,000 Sri Lankans were given the second dose while almost 01 million Sri Lankans were given the first dose of the vaccine. Joint-Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Udaya Gammanpila told reporters that the Government is in talks with countries that possess excess doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to meet the 600,000 shortage in Sri Lanka.
