{"id":10977,"date":"2021-06-28T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2021-06-28T04:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:38:03","slug":"sri-lanka-to-get-one-million-moderna-vaccine-doses-next-month-from-covax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-to-get-one-million-moderna-vaccine-doses-next-month-from-covax\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to get one million Moderna vaccine doses next month from COVAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a major boost to its vaccine drive, Sri Lanka will receive one million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccines next month through the World Health Organisation\u2019s (WHO) COVAX facility, a minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Minister of Production, Manufacturing and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana told Daily Mirror that he had received confirmation last evening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, codenamed MRNA1273 is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna, the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with this vaccine, Sri Lanka will add to its basket all the global vaccines approved by the WHO for emergency use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister said this dispatch of vaccine doses had been channeled through COVAX by the United States as part of its global vaccine cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, Sri Lanka will receive another consignment of vaccines from the United States as a direct donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major boost to its vaccine drive, Sri Lanka will receive one million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10979,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions\/10979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}