Fifteen thousand doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines will arrive in Sri Lanka on May 4, and it will be administered to the public in the Western Province immediately, a senior government source told yesterday.
Although officials earlier said 200,000 doses would arrive by the end of April, Russia will send further doses only after these 15,000 are administered. Once these doses arrive and are administered to the public, it is only then that Russia’s Gamaleya Institute, which manufactures the Sputnik V will give a date to send the further dosages.
