President Gotabaya Rajapaksa briefed the Maha Sangha on the measures taken by the Government to control the spread of COVID-19 including its vaccination drive, and the Kotelawala Defence University Bill.
The President expressed confidence that all the vaccinations received since the arrival of the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines on January 28, and the district-level vaccination programs implemented across the country will pave the way to complete the administering the two doses of the vaccine for the persons who are over the age of 30 before end of August. It is also expected to complete the vaccination drive in the Kandy District before the Dalada Perahera. The President pointed out that the World Health Organization (WHO) has commended the vaccination process in Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka has become one of the leading countries in South Asia in vaccination.
These remarks were made by the President at the 11th meeting with the Buddhist Advisory Council held at the Presidential Secretariat, yesterday (16).
