Vaccination program targeting school children between 12 – 15 years will begin from January 7th says Health Minister Dr Keheliya Rambukwella. Pfizer vaccine will be administered to those students. The date of vaccination will be announced by the schools in the future

The programme to vaccinate school students of ages 16, 17, 18 & 19 against Covid-19 began last year.

According to COVID19 Vaccine rollout tracking, So far more than 15.9 million first doses of the coronavirus vaccines have been administered in Sri Lanka. Over 13.8 million second doses of the coronavirus vaccines have been administered in Sri Lanka.