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Sri Lanka received its third consignment of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid vaccine this morning.

The highest number of COVID-19 vaccines administered within a single day in Sri Lanka was reported yesterday.

Sri Lanka has received another consignment of 26,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine this morning (12).

The Government has decided to inoculate nearly 1000 students travelling overseas for higher education with the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Pfizer is about to seek US authorisation for a third dose of its Covid-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant.

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.

The President’s Office last morning came under severe criticism after a tweet was released from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official Twitter account which claimed that Sri Lanka was the first country in South Asia to acquire a consignment of Pfizer vaccines.

The first consignment of 26,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine purchased by the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) arrived in Sri Lanka this morning, State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana said.

The Health Ministry has granted the approval for the use of US produced Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines as the second dose for those who were administered with the Astrazeneca COVISHIELD vaccine as the first dose.

Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said yesterday that they expect to obtain the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (ACCD) that was studying the possibility of using the Pfizer vaccine as the second dose for those who had received Astrazeneca (Covishield) jabs as their first dose, within the next two weeks.