“No experiments on vaccine mixing and matching are being conducted in Sri Lanka. “Specialists on the subject have said that there is no problem in administering the first dose of the vaccine from one kind and the second dose from another. It was reported that the Ministry of Health is still awaiting the results of the vaccine mix-and-match research conducted internationally. In February, the UK launched a trial to test the results of mixing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Trials are also being carried out to look at the combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Sputnik V vaccine manufactured by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia.

Source: The Nation May 11, 2021 18:56 UTC