The first shipment of Pfizer vaccinations has arrived.

According to State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) General Manager Dinusha Dassanayake, the first batch of 26,000 Pfizer vaccinations to protect against COVID-19, which was financed by Sri Lanka as the first country in the South Asian region, arrived this morning.

He stated that 200,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations would be sent to the country.

The shipment arrived at the BIA around 2.15 a.m. after flying from the United States to Doha on Qatar Airways.

The vaccines should be kept at a temperature of -70 C (minus 70 degrees Celsius) and stored in a special freezer facility at the Katunayake Airport Import Cargo Warehouse Complex shortly after being unloaded, according to the SPC General Manager. They should then be transported to Colombo by freezer trucks.