COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will receive Covid-19 vaccines free from India next week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Saturday, a day after the country approved emergency use of Oxford AstraZeneca's Covishield vaccine. "We do not have to wait longer than the 27th of this month to receive a quantity of free vaccines from India," the president said, addressing the presidential mobile service at Walallawita south of here this morning.Front-line health workers, the Army and the police and the most vulnerable elderly will be given the vaccine as a priority, the president said, amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to prevent the medical system from collapsing."We will also buy Covid-19 vaccines from Russia and China," the president said.The president's comments came as the health authorities conducted three dry runs of the vaccination process.India this week announced that it will send Covid-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka and … [Read more...] about Sri Lanka to receive Covid-19 vaccines from India next week: President
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A case to dispose of mercy petitions swiftly
India figures among the 56 nations in the world that have retained the death penalty, while 142 have abolished it either by practice or by law. In 2019, the Sri Lankan government put an end to its four-decades-long moratorium on capital punishment when then President Maithripala Sirisena ordered the execution of four drug offenders. He claimed that the move would end the addiction problem in the country. According to Amnesty International, thousands of Chinese are executed in that country every year, though such executions are classified as secret information. In 2018, Iran executed 253 convicts and Saudi Arabia executed 149. However, the total number of executions across the world came down in 2018 to 690 from 993 in 2017. … [Read more...] about A case to dispose of mercy petitions swiftly
Coronavirus | Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles receive Covishield vaccine
“Today, consignments of 15 lakh doses for Myanmar, 1 lakh doses to Mauritius and 50,000 doses to Seychelles are being airlifted,” said Official Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava who reiterated that there is “interest in many countries in accessing vaccines from India.”. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus | Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles receive Covishield vaccine
India, a true friend, using its pharma to help global community flight coronavirus: US
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US lauds ‘true friend’ India for gifting COVID-19 vaccine to several countries
Donations to Mauritius, Myanmar and Seychelles are set to follow. Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are next on the list," it noted. "The shipments reflect one of India's unique strengths: It is home to a robust vaccine industry, including Serum Institute of India, one of the world's largest vaccine makers," the report said. … [Read more...] about US lauds ‘true friend’ India for gifting COVID-19 vaccine to several countries
