COLOMBO, Aug 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, said, the Sri Lankan government planned to vaccinate children over 12 years old against the COVID-19, step by step, local media reported yesterday.
Rajapaksa said, children with various complications will be given priority in the vaccination programme.
Presently the government is vaccinating all citizens above the age of 30, with China’s Sinopharm vaccine being the leading vaccine administered across the country. Others are AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Sputnik V and Moderna vaccines.
Sri Lanka has to date administered over 11 million doses of first dose vaccines, on those above 30 years old, and 3,698,303 second doses were administered.– NNN-AGENCIES
