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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