India has announced that it will be sending a ‘gift’ of COVID-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka next week and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa confirmed that the vaccine will reach the country on January 27.
The country will be getting 500,000 doses of “made-in-India” Covishield vaccine. Sri Lanka becomes the eighth nation to receive India’s gift of COVID-19 vaccines since it began its country-wide mega immunization program on January 16.Starting Wednesday, India has gifted vaccines to seven countries in the region as part of its neighbourhood first policy, to Bhutan 150,000 doses, to Maldives 100,000 doses, to Nepal around 1 million doses, to Bangladesh around 2 million doses, Myanmar received 1.5 million doses, Seychelles was goven 50,000 doses while Mauritius was gifted 100,000 COVID-19 doses.
India was so far waiting for regulatory approval from Sri Lankan and Afghan authorities. The Sri Lanka’s drugs regulatory body — National Medicines Regulatory Authority…