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Sri Lanka to buy 30 lakh doses of India’s COVID-19 vaccine; first batch to arrive tomorrow

January 27, 2021, 3:35 PM

Karan Pareek | New Delhi

Senior advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, Lalith Weeratunga, on Wednesday, said that Sri Lanka would be buying around 30 lakh doses of India’s Covishield COVID-19 vaccine. Developed by Serum Institute and Oxford together, the first batch of the order would arrive tomorrow in Sri Lanka.
Weeratunga said that the first batch would arrive on Thursday and President Rajapaksa would accept it as head of state at the airport of Colombo. As per reports, Sri Lanka would be using this batch to vaccinate their frontline and health-care workers.
A total of 250, 000 people including people with pre-conditions, above the age of 65 and doctors would get the vaccine on a priority basis, said Weeratunga.
Around three lakh free vaccines from China are due and we would also request Russia for the vaccines, he added.
Sri Lanka had already conducted the dry runs for vaccination over the last weekend. The COVID-19 vaccination drive in Sri Lanka would start on Friday. With 60,000 cases and only 288 death, Sri Lanka is one of the few countries, which is least affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.