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The State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) has secured the booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine for the Sri Lankan population.

The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to be administered as the second dose will arrive in Sri Lanka this week, the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) announced.

Thirty-six percent of the total population above 30 years of age in Sri Lanka has been administered with at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Health Promotion Bureau (HPB) Director Ranjith Batuwanthudawa said.

Sri Lanka Army has halted administration of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines as the second dose to those who received a shot of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine effective from today (July 08), says General Shavendra Silva.

With the unavailability and shortage of Covid-19 vaccines in most parts of the world, many are wondering whether one dose of a two-dose vaccine will be sufficient.

India gave 1.2 million free doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh on Saturday, its foreign minister said, as Dhaka urged New Delhi to maintain a regular supply of shots to battle the pandemic.

The second dose of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine could be delayed in order to cover all priority groups as the first one is highly protective, two Canada-based researchers said in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.