{"id":13271,"date":"2021-03-17T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:05:40","slug":"government-spent-only-rs-500-million-to-import-corona-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13271","title":{"rendered":"Government spent only Rs. 500 million to import corona vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of State Sudarshani Fernandopulle reveals that the government has so far spent only Rs. 500 million to import the vaccine despite the spread of the coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, government ministers had stated that they had requested a loan of Rs. 1 billion from the World Bank to import vaccines. It was also announced that the vaccine would be donated by various organizations and countries around the world.<br \/>At present, vaccinations are being given to selected people at different levels, and the government has spent Rs. 500 million. Although it was initially stated that Rs.1 billion would be allocated to buy the vaccine, it is now revealed the government has allocated only a small amount to buy the vaccine.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13271' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13271&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13271' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13271' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13271' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13271'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13271' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13271 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State Sudarshani Fernandopulle reveals that the government has so far spent only Rs. 500 million to import the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-covid-19","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}