Sri Lanka gets 2nd vaccine donation from China
Sri Lanka has received 500,000 doses of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine donated by China as the Indian Ocean island nation faces severe shortage of vaccines amid a recent rise in infections.
The vaccine stock that arrived early Wednesday is the second donation from China, following a shipment of 600,000 doses in March.
Sri Lanka is facing a shortage of vaccine after the producer in neighboring India failed to provide the promised Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine stocks. The government on Tuesday agreed to buy 14 million doses of Sinopharm from China.
The current vaccination program is focused on Sri Lanka’s Western province, which includes the capital of Colombo and its suburbs. It is where the majority of the country’s coronavirus cases have been.
Sri Lanka so far has reported 168,980 coronavirus cases and 1,269 deaths from COVID-19.
(AP)
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Are we a Beggar Nation?
The Chinks donate their own rubbish called Sin-farm.
Elsewhere I find the Yanks donating PCR tests.
Are we a beggar nation?
Why cannot we source all needed to protect our Sinhala Buddhist Citizens from the the Chinese Virus with our own resources?