SRI LANKA on Wednesday (26) received a second batch of 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China.
In March, China donated 600,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines to Colombo.
On Tuesday (25), the Sri Lankan government agreed to buy 14 million doses of Sinopharm.
Sri Lanka is facing a shortage of vaccines after India failed to provide the promised Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine stocks.
Earlier this month Sri Lanka and the World Bank signed an $ 80.5 million agreement to strengthen the country’s vaccination system.
So far Sri Lanka has reported 167,172 coronavirus cases and 1,243 deaths from Covid-19.
Nirmala Sitharaman speaks at the India-UK Investor Roundtable in London last Wednesday (9). On the panel were India’s department of economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth and Kotak Mahindra Bank founder Uday Kotak
Sitharaman with Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
Sitharaman with Jonathan Reynolds 
Sitharaman with Reynolds, Alastair King, India’s high commissioner Vikram Doraiswami and other delegates
