A consignment of 728,460 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVIShield vaccine, made available to Sri Lanka under the World Health Organisation’s COVAX facility, departs for Sri Lanka from Japan.
Accordingly, the flight carrying the consignment will land at the Bandaranaike International Airport at 5.10pm.
490,000 individuals who are expecting the second dose of the vaccine, will be inoculated as a priority.
