Around 1,000 students to be administered with Pfizer

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The government has decided to administer Pfizer vaccines to nearly 1,000 students going overseas for higher education, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said.

“There were requests from a large number of students going overseas for higher education that they be vaccinated with Pfizer as some countries are not allowing entry without administrating Pfizer vaccines,” the commander said.

“Because of that, we have decided to administrate Pfizer vaccines to some 987 students,” he said. He also said that some 2,100 other students would also be vaccinated with Sinopharm before they leave for studies overseas.

Meanwhile, General Silva said that the authorities have taken a decision to administer Pfizer vaccines that were received a few days ago for those who are in outside the Western Province.

“The administering of Pfizer vaccines by the Army as the second dose to those who had been vaccinated with Astrazeneca stopped from yesterday as Sri Lanka will receive 1.4 million doses of Astrazeneca by the 3rd week of July,” he said. (SUNIL JAYASIRI)

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Mark Friday, 09 July 2021 09:07 AM

So if you have lots of money then government makes sure your kids are safe and let them escape to Australia

Chanaka Ranaweera Friday, 09 July 2021 09:38 AM

Students = Elite group of families who have lota of money to send their kids to Australia to save themselves and will never come back. Shame Shame

priya Friday, 09 July 2021 10:34 AM

Give first priority to students in Sri Lanka

Baiya Friday, 09 July 2021 10:39 AM

Hope these students will bring dollars back to SL

Anonymous Friday, 09 July 2021 10:44 AM

Big bet majority are top government officials sons

Ranaweera Friday, 09 July 2021 11:34 AM

These students takes dollars from Sri Lanka. They never bring anything back. Thanks to JVP , we cannot exploit this lucrative education sector to save the dollars. JVP wants more art graduates so that they join the frustrated lot and then work for JVP . If we bring up the standard of our higher education sector and bring public private investments, we can excel in this area and earn a lot of dollars. JVP will never allow anyone to do this. That is the unfortunate status of Sri Lanka.

CHOLMONDELEY PINTO Friday, 09 July 2021 01:30 PM

Get them to pay US dollars 45 per shot and recover the cost.

Saman yapage Friday, 09 July 2021 05:47 PM

So wait… TVs, cell phones etc are luxurious and should not be imported to prevent USD leakage but sending kids abroad is fine which costs 1000times more than a tv and doesn’t leak USD out of the country? Rich people in Srilanka are safe with everything. What a stupid country we live in.

Chandra Munasinghe Friday, 09 July 2021 06:28 PM

Hello, we are migrating to Canada by August, how we can get pfizer vaccine as a second jab, we already got the Astra Zeneca first shot in May 19th 2021 appreciate your feedback by return yours truly C. Munasinghe

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