A long awaited consignment of 15,000 doses of the Sputnik V anti Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Sri Lanka this morning (11).
It was reported that the consignment arrived on an Emirates flight. Upon arrival, the doses were transported to the central vaccine storage complex at the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC).
Earlier, The Morning reported that while 159,081 persons have received the first dose of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, only 14,503 persons have received the second dose of the same.
Data from the Health Ministry’s Epidemiology Unit shows that the administering of the Sputnik V vaccine took place between June and July of this year.
The only consignment of Sputnik V second doses – 15,000 in total – arrived in the country on 11 June. This was in a consignment that also included 50,000 first doses of the same. The two doses of the Sputnik V vaccine differ from each other, as they use different adenoviruses.
State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) General Manager Dinusha Dasanayake had explained to The Sunday Morning on multiple occasions that the manufacturer of the vaccine had encountered issues in supplying the required vaccine quantities to Sri Lanka on time.
According to Dasanayake, the SPC had ordered a total of 13 million Sputnik V vaccines, 6.5 million of the first dose and 6.5 million of the second.
Sputnik V doses arrive after multiple delays
11 Aug 2021
Sputnik V doses arrive after multiple delays
11 Aug 2021
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