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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he will ensure a strong vaccination drive for all.
Extends wishes for a speedy recovery
In addition to these, funds have been set aside to purchase one million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
Bandara asked if the government was attempting to downplay the gravity of the situation by reducing the number of tests.
Third does for elderly as 7-pct of do not develop anti-bodies after Sinopharm
Travellers must also be able to provide a vaccination certificate from a national or state-level public health body
A CID investigation has begun into a fake press release written on a Presidential Secretariat letterhead offering allowa...
The government is yet not fixing dates for schools to re-open and it would be done only on the advice of the health auth...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed six new Permanent Secretaries to Ministries bringing in two senior military m...
Police Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne said that curfew in Kalutara and Puttalam district have been lifted until further n...
Curfew in Sri Lanka’s Kalutara and Puttalam districts - considered to be at high risk of COVID-19 infection - have bee...
The Supreme Court will next Monday examine seven Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the holding of the Parliamenta...
Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is calling on the government to increase community testing of people for the ...
Sri Lanka is relaxing Coronavirus curfews in the Western province for people to report to work and also get groceries fr...
As of today more than half of the patients infected by COVID 19 in Sri Lanka since the outbreak are from the so-called N...
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is challenging the government’s statement that the country can save Rs 100 billion if the s...
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Weligama Mayor Rehaan Jayawickreme has banned the unauthorised entry of media personnel into the private property of sus...
Sri Lanka is looking to repatriate citizens currently overseas by prioritizing them in an objective way, and this week a...
The Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has filed a Right to Information request to the Director-General of Health S...
The government has removed the head of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital (KTH) because he has allegedly failed to prepare...
More than a million Sri Lankans are likely to become unemployed or underemployed as the COVID 19 crisis ravages the econ...
The total number of COVID 19 positive cases in Sri Lanka rose to 795 today with 23 new cases reported according to the M...
Officials are saying that the last four patients who they first believed contracted COVID 19 have tested negative for th...
Health authorities are unsure as to how the last four patients who contracted COVID 19 got the infection, a senior healt...
Sri Lanka's Hemas group said it Club Hotel Dolphin in Waikkala, run as a quarantine centre at their expense has complete...
The Sri Lanka Navy is debunking stories that it is to temporarily withdraw from COVID-19 prevention duties as well as ro...
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