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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Sri Lanka sees hospitalization delays as authorities scramble new Covid-19 beds

Most delays in Colombo, Kaluthara, Kurunegala, Gampaha and Matale districts.

May 5, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to expand Coronavirus ICU, HDU beds, non-invasive ventilation in Covid-19 wave

Total daily Coronavirus cases 1,914, domestic cases 1,860.

May 5, 2021 4 min read

Sri Lanka plans to vaccinate 63-pct of population by end 2021: Health Minister

National Medical Regulatory Authority would clear a vaccine if it was approved by two 'stringent' foreign regulators

May 4, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka orders more oxygen cylinders in new Covid-19 wave

Plans are underway to increase the oxygen capacity in the country.

May 4, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka lockdown style Coronavirus restrictions extended till June 07

Relaxed on May 31 and June 04 for food and medicine. Vehicles not allowed

Sri Lanka Covid-19 patient did not have the same fungus as India's

Cryptococcus fungus infection is found in Sri Lanka from time to time

WHO helping poorer countries to get Pfizer Covid vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, in order to s...

January 1, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Covid 19: Top docs say burial of dead will not spread disease

Sri Lanka’s College of Community Physicians (CCPSL) has made a definitive statement as to whether the remains of peopl...

December 31, 2020 3 min read
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PC polls postponement partly due to Right-Wing pressure

Sri Lanka’s decision to indefinitely postpone Provincial Council (PC) elections controversially was made due to sustai...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 30, 2020 4 min read

Authorities prepare for Adam’s Peak season despite Covid 19

The annual Sri Pada season when thousands of pilgrims climb Adam’s Peak each year begins today under strict guidelines...

December 29, 2020 2 min read

Officials warn consumers of “Covid cures” of complacency against the pandemic

Health officials working in the Kegalle-Warakapola area where a local Shaman is touting a cure for Covid 19 are warning ...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 28, 2020 4 min read
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Sri Lanka ends Coronavirus isolation in some Colombo divisions, Ratnapura areas isolated

Sri Lanka has ended Coronavirus isolation in several areas in the capital Colombo from Monday December 28, and designate...

December 28, 2020 1 min read

Powerful Order of Buddhist Monks, Christians and Hindus ask for burial of Covid victims

One of the country’s biggest Chapter of Buddhist Monks the joint Amarapura-Ramanna sect is asking President Gotabaya R...

December 27, 2020 3 min read
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No link between incineration of Mink bodies in Denmark and Covid in the groundwater – experts

The decision by the Danish government to incinerate the remains of millions of Mink who were slaughtered and buried afte...

December 26, 2020 4 min read

Life is tough in locked-down Covid infected inner-city Colombo

Death, hunger, loss of livelihood and scarce access to on-line learning are daily occurrences for people living in Covid...

Imesh Ranasinghe
December 25, 2020 8 min read

Coronavirus tests at 17 Sri Lanka Western Province exits over Christmas: Army Chief

Sri Lanka authorities will conduct rapid Coronavirus tests at 17 exit points from the Western Province in a bid to reduc...

Chanka Jayasinghe
December 24, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka relaxes rules for inbound travelers from Boxing Day onwards

Sri Lanka has announced a further relaxation of rules for incoming passengers to the island from December 26 onwards, wi...

December 21, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolates Induruwa areas, six Covid-19 deaths takes total to 171

Sri Lanka has Coronavirus isolated areas Thenduwa West and Thenduwa East Grama Niladari Division of Induruwa in the Sou...

December 20, 2020 2 min read

Showing no compassion towards Muslim sentiments is shameful and dangerous

Sri Lanka’s continuing anti-Muslim policies are shameful as we as heirs to a civilization that goes back millennia are...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 18, 2020 8 min read
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Antigen tests on Western Provincial Borders – Health dept

Sri Lanka Health Authorities are conducting rapid antigen tests on people crossing the borders of the Western Province f...

December 18, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lankans face an austere Christmas as Covid 19 continues to bite

Sri Lanka’s largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholics are being asked to mark an austere Christmas as the se...

December 17, 2020 2 min read

SJB asks the Govt what is your Covid solution, herbal syrup or vaccine?

Sri Lanka’s main opposition party wants to know whether the government is depending on a herbal syrup produced by a Sh...

Imesh Ranasinghe
December 17, 2020 2 min read

WHO team in China to find out the origin of Covid 19

A World Health Organization (WHO) research mission is expected to arrive in Wuhan, China next month to investigate how t...

December 17, 2020 3 min read

Catholic Church has no position on cremation or burial of Covid dead – Archbishops spokesman

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church does not oppose the cremation of the remains of the dead of any of its faithful who ...

December 17, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolates areas in East, Moneragala

Sri Lanka has Coronavirus has isolated 9 areas in the East and a village in Moneragala from O700hour on December 17, arm...

December 17, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka rushes hospitals for Coronavirus as Covid-19 infections outpace recoveries

Sri Lanka will take-over more hospitals and rapidly convert them to Coronavirus treatment as confirmed infections contin...

December 16, 2020 1 min read