Another consignment of Pfizer vaccine arrives in Sri Lanka tomorrow

Channa Jayasumana says that a consignment of 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled to arrive in the country tomorrow (22).

 

State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals stated that Pfizer Inc., the US-based multinational pharmaceutical company, has agreed to supply Sri Lanka with 3 million doses of their vaccine every week starting from December.

 

Meanwhile the state minister said that it has been observed that the new sub-lineage of Delta variant of COVID-19 detected in the country is spreading among the country’s youth and school children.