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More than 1,000,000 Sri Lankans still unvaccinated against COVID-19: official

Around 1.17 million Sri Lankans beyond 20 years old have not taken even a solitary portion of a COVID-19 antibody, a State Ministry of Home Affairs official said.



Secretary to the State Ministry of Home Affairs N H M Chithrananda told on Tuesday (08) that, as indicated by information recorded by Divisional Secretariats, around 5.5 percent of the populace has not taken a solitary hit against the infection over Sri Lanka's drawn-out antibody rollout.


A breakdown of unvaccinated people is as per the following:


20-29 age bunch: 719,796

30-60 age bunch: 386,408

North of 60 gathering: 64,234


Chithrananda said many have overlooked the various mindfulness programs done by wellbeing specialists since the time inoculation started in the country in January 2021.


He said the Medical Officers of Health (MOH) the nation over have been coordinated to open their workplaces seven days per week for people, in general, to get the punch without burden.


In any case, when reached by, Deputy Director-General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said the information has not been delivered to him by the service's study of disease transmission unit which supervises Sri Lanka's antibody rollout.


"I haven't gotten this information yet, so I can't say it's off-base," Herath said when gotten some information about the information assembled by the State Ministry of Home Affairs.


"I have offered these comments freely before too. This information is not a private property of these units and it ought to be given to general society to make mindfulness about the moves we make."


Wellbeing authorities have up to this point given the principal portion of immunization to 16.7 million, of which 14 million have gotten the two dosages.


Up until this point, just 5.8 million have gotten the booster dose.


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