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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Gazette has been issued but no Muslim Covid victims body has been released for burial

Although the Islamic world has welcomed the decision by the Sri Lankan government to permit the burial of Muslim victims...

February 27, 2021 2 min read

No official statement yet regarding permitting burial of Covid dead

There is yet no official statement confirming that the regulations stipulating the mandatory cremation of the remains of...

February 26, 2021 2 min read

Ad-hoc decisions regarding Covid vaccination plan jeopardizes pandemic control

The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL), is expressing “grave concern” about the non-adherence of t...

February 23, 2021 3 min read

Truth, In The Face Of Cremation

Muslims and even Christians wait with bated breath to see if Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit would result in...

February 23, 2021 11 min read
Sri Lanka Air Force to produce high flow oxygen units for Covid-19 patients

The Air Force was planning to produce 50 machines and was ready to make more

Sri Lanka confirms 2,386 Coronavirus patients, 18 deaths as controls tightened

Public to travel out based on ID numbers. Nightly curfew-like restriction

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise to 34 with more dying at home, 445 Covid-19 cases

Sri Lanka's Coronavirus deaths rose to 34 with three deaths at home and 445 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed, official ...

November 8, 2020 1 min read

Seven inmates at the Bogambara Prison transit centre test positive for Covid

Seven inmates of a transit centre for transferring prisoners in Bogambara in have tested positive for the Covid 19 virus...

November 7, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka in multiple Coronavirus clusters as Covid-19 home deaths rise

Sri Lanka has reported 30 Coronavirus deaths with 08 home deaths and authorities are placing more responsibility on cont...

November 7, 2020 7 min read

Covid 19 outbreak at the Welikada jail probably confined to one Ward – Prison’s Chief

Sri Lankan authorities are conducting mass testing for the Coronavirus in its largest jail after at least two dozen inma...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 7, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka records 30th Covid death a 23-year-old Colombo resident – Health Chief

Sri Lanka recorded its 30th Covid 19 fatality late last night as the authorities scrambled to deal with an outbreak of t...

November 7, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka health ministry says country in Coronavirus Alert 3 with multiple Covid-19 clusters

Sri Lanka's Health Ministry had called for greater caution with multiple clusters coming up in Colombo and several other...

November 7, 2020 2 min read

Inmates in crowded Welikada Jail living in fear after several are diagnosed with Covid 19

A group of women detainees at the Welikada jail in Colombo are staging a protest as tensions arising from the discovery ...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 6, 2020 2 min read

Restarting economies – Bankers and Telcos must rethink strategies to help Ecommerce

The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated lifestyle changes for most globally, and in this new normal, more and more folk ha...

Kshama Ranawana
November 6, 2020 8 min read

ICTA to introduce high-tech contact tracing for pandemic control – Chairman de Silva

Sri Lanka’s Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) will launch the new Stay Safe Digital Project on Mo...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 6, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka's Welikada prison finds Covid-19 infections among new inmates

Sri Lanka's Welidaka prison has confirmed six Covid 19 positive cases including four female inmates, who had come in fro...

November 6, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka Kolonnawa trash collection crippled as Coronavirus strike workers

Trash collection in Kolonnawa, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo has been crippled after sanitation workers were c...

November 6, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka should not to discharge Coronavirus patients without a PCR test: GMOA

Sri Lanka's Government Medical Officers Association had warned health authorities not to discharge patients without a PC...

November 6, 2020 1 min read

Five die from Coronavirus overnight and all victims are from Colombo – Info Dept

The Department of Government Information announced a short while ago that five more people have died of Covid 19 bringin...

November 5, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise by 5 to 29, 383 new Covid-19 cases

Sri Lanka's Coronavirus deaths rose to 29 with 5 new patients reported dead including several at home on November 05 inc...

November 5, 2020 1 min read

Five more Covid deaths bringing total to 29 - Government

The Department of Government Information announced a short while ago that five more people have died of Covid 19 bringin...

November 5, 2020 1 min read

ICRC to set up online interactions between prisoners and families

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is setting up a project for Prison Inmates in Sri Lanka to interact ...

November 5, 2020 2 min read

Future Covid 19 lockdowns unlikely - General Shavendra Silva

The government will most likely cease locking down areas as a measure to prevent the spread of the Covid 19 virus, the h...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 5, 2020 3 min read

Corona-related deaths continue to climb as another woman dies in Colombo

A 79-year old woman who died at home in Colombo yesterday November 3 has been classified as the 24th person to die from ...

November 4, 2020 1 min read

The Minuwangoda cluster has yielded more than 8,000 Covid patients

Sri Lanka's biggest coronavirus infection clusters "Minuwangoda-Brandix" and the sub-cluster "Peliyagoda-fishmarket" has...

Mahadiya Hamza
November 4, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka finds 409 Coronavirus cases, 6,140 active Covid-19 patients

Sri Lanka has found 409 Coronavirus cases from 9,940 tests conducted with 6,140 active cases in hospital on November 03,...

November 4, 2020 1 min read