Public to receive Covid-19 jab from today

The government announces that the general public will receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVIShield vaccine doses from today (15).

The National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) says that the vaccine will be administered to the public in areas deemed as high-risk in the Western Province.

According to the Ministry of Health, 189,349 frontline workers have received vaccine doses in Sri Lanka since Jan. 29.