Colombo, April 10 -- Sri Lankan Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi has said China's Sinopharm vaccine will not be given to Sri Lankans until the safety aspect of the vaccine is ensured by the health authorities.

She told Parliament that the Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases and the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) had been analyzing data on the vaccine to ensure the safety of the vaccine, reports Daily Mirror.

She said the shelf life of the consignment of the Sinopharm vaccine received from China will end only in 2023.

"We can use it until then. We have to only bear the storage cost," she was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

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