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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Sri Lanka daily Coronavirus cases hit new high of 1923, daily deaths reach 13

In the current wave, deaths are now reported in double digits

May 4, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus total hits new high of 1,891 as concerns rise over hospital beds

Patients under medical care rose to 13,824 from 11,933 after the new confirmations as 764 were discharged

May 3, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka on Coronavirus Alert 03, Covid-19 cases hit new high of 1,716

May 2, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Covid-19 total hits new daily high of 1,662, health staff fatigue warned

"Health staff are getting fatigued. It the true picture is not revealed people will go on weekend trips"

April 30, 2021 3 min read

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
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Controversy rages over PHI’s claims over Atalugama Covid infections

Local residents in Atalugama are disputing claims by the Public Health Inspectors Union (PHIU) that they are not coopera...

December 16, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Peliyagoda fish-market to re-open on Dec 16 under Covid-19 rules

A fish-market in Peliyagoda north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, which was the epicentre of a Coronavirus cluster that ...

December 15, 2020 1 min read

People who refuse PCR Tests can be charged - Police spokesman

Sri Lanka’s Police Spokesman is saying that a person who refuses a PCR test can be charged with maliciously spreading ...

December 14, 2020 2 min read
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Mourning dead Muslim infant who was cremated

Activists today Saturday, December 12, tied white cloths to the gates of Sri Lanka’s biggest graveyard in protest agai...

December 12, 2020 1 min read
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Isolation orders for six areas in Colombo lifted – Army Chief

Six housing complexes in inner-city Colombo which had been declared no-go zones over Covid 19 infections have been relea...

December 12, 2020 1 min read

ADB starts US$9bn Covid-19 vaccines fund for Asian developing countries

Manila-based Asian Development Bank said it had started a 9 billion US dollar fund to help member countries buy vaccines...

December 11, 2020 2 min read

“Muslims are protesting by not consenting to cremations” – Shreen Saroor

Sri Lanka’s Muslims are not abandoning the remains of their relatives who died of Covid 19 but are not cooperating wit...

December 10, 2020 3 min read
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Health authorities cannot accept responsibility for anti-Covid potion - Epidemiologist

Chief Epidemiologist Dr Sudath Samaraweera said that the health authorities cannot accept responsibility for a large num...

Imesh Ranasinghe
December 9, 2020 4 min read

Anti-Covid potion draws tens of thousands in Kegalle as danger looms

Tens of thousands have gathered at a temple in the Hettimulla area in the Kegalle district today as 5,000 free samples o...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 8, 2020 5 min read
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Brandix workers probably got Covid from a foreign source - Minister

Sri Lanka’s Minister tasked with dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic Dr Sudharshini Fernandopulle believes that staff a...

December 7, 2020 2 min read