Sri Lanka has received 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the U.S. through the UN-backed COVAX facilityꦓ.
It was the second shipment to Sri L𝓡anka from the global COVAX effort after an AstraZeneca delivery in March.
Sri Lanka has given 36 per cent o🌼f its population their firsꦬt vaccine dose while 13 per cent have received both doses.
Its vaccination campaign was set back by halted shipments of AstraZeneca from the Indian producer. It then turned to Sinopharm, Sputn🐻ik V and Pfizer to get its population inoculated.
Sꦗri Lanka has confir🐼med 279,059 coronavirus infections with 3,611 fatalities.
