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Sri Lanka issues Covid-19 warning as ICU admissions rise

Sri Lanka's Health Promotion Bureau has issued a public warning of a Coronavirus breakout after the April festive season...

April 21, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka mulls curbing repatriation, tighter quarantine as Covid-19 cases spike

Sri Lanka may limit the number of repatriates being brought back to the country and tighten quarantine amid a surge in C...

April 17, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka shuts out Sinopharm despite Chinese gift

Sri Lanka has effectively shut the door for the Chinese-made Sinopharm jab despite Beijing’s vaccine diplomacy of maki...

April 6, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to give second dose from April 19 with left-over stock

Sri Lanka will start giving the second dose of a Coronavirus vaccine to over 900,000 recipients of the first does from ...

April 5, 2021 2 min read

Final decision about O/L exams by December 10 - GL

The final decision on the dates of the O/L examinations will be taken by 10 December depending on the resumption of scho...

November 26, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lankans will get vaccinated against Covid when WHO approves - Pavithra

Sri Lankans will get the vaccination against Covid 19 as soon as the World Health Organisation-approved vaccine is made ...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 25, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Coronavirus cases top 20,000, Covid-19 deaths rise by 4

Sri Lanka has confirmed 400 Coronavirus cases with 391 domestic cases taking the total Covid-19 cases so far to 20,171 w...

November 23, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka confirms 09 Covid-19 deaths taking total to 83, Coronavirus cases 19,771

Sri Lanka has confirmed 09 new Coronavirus deaths on November 21, taking the total to 83, with 487 new Covid-19 cases b...

November 21, 2020 2 min read

Two areas in Kalutara isolated as the death toll from Covid rises to 74

The government has declared two areas in the Kalutara district, Bandaragama and Atalugama as isolated after several Covi...

November 21, 2020 1 min read

Opposition urges government to get the vaccines for Covid to Sri Lanka

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa is urging the government to take steps to obtain newly developed COVID-19 vacc...

November 20, 2020 3 min read

Mayor Rosie appeals to donors to provide dry rations to the poor in Colombo

Colombo Mayor Rosie Senanayake is appealing to donors to contribute towards providing dry rations to at least 30,000 fam...

November 19, 2020 4 min read
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Schools open Monday for Grades 6-13 everywhere except in Western Province

Sri Lanka’s Schools will open throughout the country from Monday, November 23 for Grades 6-13 except for the Covid 19 ...

November 19, 2020 2 min read

Govt to pay compensation to families of deceased migrant workers

Sri Lanka will pay LKR 500,000 as compensation to the families of each migrant workers who died due to COVID-19 overseas...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka fails to sell 80-pct of Treasuries at auction

Sri Lanka has failed to sell 80 percent of Treasury bills offered at an auction on Wednesday, official data showed amid ...

November 19, 2020 1 min read
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Covid-related unrest in Prisons grow as escaping inmate in Kandy is shot dead

Prisoners in many jails in Sri Lanka are uneasy because of the Covid 19 spread in the institutions and the incident this...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 18, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka Covid death toll rises to 66 as 5 die in and around Colombo

The death toll from the Covid 19 pandemic in Sri Lanka has risen to 66 today after five more people succumbed to the ill...

November 17, 2020 1 min read

Opinion: Government Alone Cannot Win War Against Covid-19

A fatal trend of non-transparent decision making was set early on in the Covid crisis. At the root of the problem was th...

Dr. Jehan Perera - Executive Director National Peace Council
November 17, 2020 6 min read

Rosy wants to shut down Colombo but government unlikely to agree

The government is unlikely to accede to a request made by Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake to shut down the country’s com...

November 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise to 61, new Covid-19 cases 382

Sri Lanka's Coronavirus deaths rose to 61 with three elderly persons passing away and health authorities confirmed anoth...

November 17, 2020 1 min read
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Bogambara Prison Covid infections threatening Kandy - Kiriella

Opposition MP Lakshman Kiriella is charging that said that the Prison turned quarantine centre in Bogambara Prison is po...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 16, 2020 2 min read

Opinion: It is time to rethink how we are dealing with Covid

As the second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic continues to engulf the country, and the public is increasingly showing its ...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 16, 2020 8 min read

Opinion: Failed Government - A Year in Review

A year into President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's presidency, we are in the midst of a raging pandemic, with an ailing economy ...

By Rasika Jayakody – Samagi Jana Balavegaya
November 16, 2020 4 min read
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Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise to 58, new Covid-19 cases 704

Sri Lanka's has reported five new Coronavirus deaths taking the total to 58, Director General of Health Asela Gunewarden...

November 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolation in Colombo tightened, EDB, BOI firms can work

Sri Lanka has expanded isolated areas in the capital Colombo from 0500hours Monday with border controls on the Western p...

November 15, 2020 3 min read