Booster dose administered

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The Government has commenced providing the third or the booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines today at the Army Hospital premises – Narahenpita for the Army frontline workers who were vaccinated the first two doses 6 months before and are at the frontline duties of preventing Covid-19. They were vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine as their 3rd dose on instructions of the CDS & Comd of the Army General Shavendra Silva.

Adding a new dimension and to further strengthen the National vaccination drive, the Army’s Covid-19 vaccination fleet has started to administer the third dose of the vaccination (Booster dose) today.