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Sri Lanka begins vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19

"Wear a mask, wash your hands and limit going out, because we give the vaccine to protect you and the baby," he said.

June 9, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka vaccination center for June 09

A total of 353,955 people in Sri Lanka have received both doses of either Covidshied or Sinopharm, official data shows.

June 9, 2021 1 min read

One million more doses of Sinopharm arrive in Sri Lanka

The first batch of one million doses arrived on June 06, according to health officials.

June 9, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka booze ban drives lockdown hooch as US gives free beer for Corona jabs

In youtube, do-it-yourself hooch videos are generating wide interest

June 9, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka health workers to go on token strike Nov 24, 25

"Do not come saying whoever wants to leave can leave or it is unfair that workers are going for a strike at this time."

New COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka to increasingly be among vaxxed; lockdown incoming?

According to official data, Sri Lanka has vaccinated more than 62 percent of the total population as of Tuesday.

Sri Lanka’s newest COVID 19 cluster linked to another that erupted in April – Dr Anil Jasinghe

Sri Lanka’s newest COVID 19 cluster that has produced more than 300 new cases is linked directly to a cluster that eme...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 11, 2020 5 min read

Chief Elections Commissioner warns of “grave danger” of COVID 19 spread at crowded rallies

Sri Lanka’s Chief Elections Commissioner is warning that because people attending the political rallies are not follow...

July 10, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka finds 300 Coronavirus cases as Kandakadu cluster expands, over 1000 to be tested

Sri Lanka has confirmed 296 new Coronavirus cases as authorities traded and tested inmates, staff and contacts of two dr...

July 10, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka finds more than 200 COVID 19 patients at Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre Cluster

Sri Lankan authorities have found 252 COVID 19 positive patients in a drug rehabilitation centre in the North Central Pr...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 10, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka may find more COVID 19 cases at virus struck rehabilitation centre – Army Chief

Sri Lankan authorities are doing their best to prevent an outbreak of COVID 19 in a drug rehabilitation centre from spre...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 10, 2020 3 min read

New COVID 19 Cluster may be emerging at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre in Polonnaruwa

Sri Lanka may be seeing the possibility of a new cluster of COVID 19 infected persons emerging after 56 inmates and staf...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 9, 2020 3 min read

More relief for electricity consumers struggling to pay inflated bills caused by the COVID lockdown

The Cabinet of Ministers at their weekly meeting today considered a number of concessions for consumers proposed by Powe...

July 9, 2020 2 min read

How a Prison inmate became infected with COVID 19 is still a mystery - officials

Officials are still trying to figure out how an inmate at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre for addicts was infected w...

July 8, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka and Maldives have eradicated rubella and measles: WHO

Sri Lanka and the Maldives have eradicated measles and rubella, the World Health Organization said, becoming the first t...

July 8, 2020 2 min read

Faulty PCR reports issued by external research labs could jeopardise COVID-19 containment: CMLS-SL

Faulty PCR test reports issued by external research laboratories that don't come under the purview of the Ministry of He...

July 7, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka COVID19: Welikada Prison hospital inmates test negative as officials scramble to trace inf...

Tests for COVID 19 on 170 inmates of the Welikada Prison hospital have returned negative, officials said today. The test...

July 7, 2020 2 min read

Government doctors threaten to strike if demands are not met by July 16

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) is warning that unless the government moves swiftly to clear burea...

July 7, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka scrambles counter Coronavirus measures after prison inmate tests positive

Sri Lanka is scrambling to deploy containment action in a remand prison in the capital Colombo after a recently transfer...

July 7, 2020 1 min read

Government breaking the COVID rules at election meetings - SJB

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is complaining that the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is not abiding by the COVID pre...

July 6, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka sea marshal tests negative on later PCR tests

A sea marshal who tested positive for Coronavirus when he was in home quarantine in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo after re...

July 5, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19: Twenty-nine families quarantined in Jinthupitiya in Colombo after returning Seaman tests p...

The Health Authorities are placing more than 150 people in the Jinthupitiya inner-city area of Colombo under quarantine ...

July 3, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka returnee confirmed with Coronavirus in Colombo home quarantine

A Sri Lanka sea marshal, who was in home quarantine after completing a 14-days a quarantine centre upon returning to th...

July 3, 2020 2 min read

GMOA calls for increased testing to confirm that there is no community transmission of COVID 19

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) is calling on the government to increase random testing for COVID 19 ...

June 30, 2020 1 min read

Pompeo and Dinesh talk about Millennium Challenge Compact deal - Ministry

US Secretary of State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have discussed th...

June 30, 2020 1 min read

Watchdogs call for a clean poll but expect the Media to fight dirty like last year

The Presidential Election of 2019 was the poll where Social Media played a major role and widespread unethical conduct w...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 29, 2020 5 min read