Chinese pharma company to set up Covid-19 vaccine plant in Sri Lanka

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China and Sri Lanka are set to deepen their bilateral “vaccine diplomacy” with a leading Chinese pharma company preparing to set up a manufacturing plant to make anti-Covid jabs in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home district, Hambantota

The new plant will be set up under an agreement that will allow Colombo to source nine million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Chinese pharma company that sets it up, Sri Lankan ambassador to China, Palitha Kohona, told the Hindustan Times.

A deal between Sri Lanka’s State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), a state-owned enterprise, and China’s Sinovac Biotech is “fairly close to completion,” Kohana said.

“It will be set up in the dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing zone [in Hambantota],” the Sri Lankan envoy said.

The Sinovac vaccine is one of the two Chinese jabs approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) under its “emergency-use listing”; the other being from state-owned Sinopharm.

The development comes months after India gifted 500,000 doses of the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Colombo, which kicked off Sri Lanka’s vaccine roll-out in late January.

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Lalith Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:02 PM

It is a really manufacturing plant or merely a bottling plant?

Another shot Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:20 PM

Good news but this country is going to be the headquarters for Corana. Good luck President .

vithura Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:25 PM

More Chinese crap!

Michael Ranasinghe Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:29 PM

It's the vaccine which has the lowest efficacy and is not even accepted for travel in any country .. but who the hell Cares this is a Chinese colony ..

Misaru Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:43 PM

This vaccine is has problems in Indonesia as the efficacy rate is dropping with time. The reason may be it is not effective against new variants.

BuffaloaCitizen Monday, 16 August 2021 09:18 AM

We have to comply to Chinese requests and not in any position to say no.

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