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LNP – Govt. confirms arrival of AstraZeneca vaccines by 5.00 pm on July 31

Head of the Presidential Task Force for National Deployment of Vaccines Lalith Weeratunga today assured that the consignment of 725,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines will reach Sri Lanka by 5.00 pm on Saturday (31).

He said the Government had managed to obtain the AstraZeneca vaccines from Japan upon the President̢۪s personal intervention.

Tyronne Jayamanne

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