COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry said on Friday it will kick off a booster-vaccine week across the nation from Saturday to coincide with the completion of the first year of the vaccination drive in the country. The ministry said the promotional booster vaccination drive will be conducted at all hospitals in the country and … Read more
ISTANBUL – Turkey has so far administered 140 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as part of the ongoing vaccination campaign, the Turkish Health Ministry revealed on Thursday. According to the ministry’s data, the vaccination rate of citizens aged 18 and over who have received two vaccine doses hit 84.10 percent, and those with one shot reached … Read more
Hong Kong – Sri Lanka is speeding up vaccination for more age groups so as to meet goals of making 2022 the “Visit Sri Lanka Year”. The South Asian island country extended its vaccination drive to include children and teenagers aged 12 to 15 starting January 7, wrote Sri Lankan Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella in … Read more
COLOMBO, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s health ministry said on Monday that the country has so far registered 48 infections of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Anwar Hamdani, the COVID-19 coordinator and director of technical services of the Ministry of Health, was quoted by the local Daily Mirror as saying that the Omicron infected … Read more
