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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Tourism Minister says MPs have a right to priority vaccination

Parliament members in the opposition are trying to spread the COVID-19 virus and create chaos in the country by deferrin...

February 19, 2021 2 min read

International concern that Sri Lanka continues to cremate Muslim Covid dead

Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged to “push Sri Lanka to gazette” the step to end the forced cremati...

February 18, 2021 5 min read

Jayasumana to act as Health Minister

State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana has been appointed as the Acting Minister of Health until Pavithra Wanniarachchi ...

February 16, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka too poor to lockdown country – Gammanpila

Sri Lanka does not have the economic strength to lock down the country because of the emergence of the new Covid 19 vari...

February 16, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka slaps country-wide travel ban to contain coronavirus surge

Govt. stops dithering and takes action to contain the fast-spreading Covid-19 wave; total deaths reach 850

Sri Lanka needs wider lockdowns; waiting list for ICU, non-Covid-19 patients dying: SLMA

"Unless action is instituted today, there will be an exponential rise of cases followed by a surge"

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
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Ali Sabry defends government actions as issue of cremation of Muslim Covid victims flares up

Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that a “Specialists Committee” is to meet this week to discuss the conte...

Arjuna Ranawana
November 3, 2020 3 min read

Pavithra willing to offer herself as a sacrifice to save Lanka from Covid

Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said that she is willing to offer herself as a living sacrifice to the sea to era...

November 3, 2020 2 min read
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Depression can make you more vulnerable to Covid – Psychiatrist Prof Sumathipala

Mentally depressed people have a higher chance of catching infections including Covid 19 says Professor of Psychiatry at...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 3, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka finds 275 new Coronavirus cases, Kegalle areas isolated after curfew appeal

Sri Lanka has found 275 new Coronavirus cases on November 03 taking the total active cases to 11,335 and the latest clus...

November 3, 2020 2 min read

Government to regulate PCR testing by the private sector – Ministry of Health

Sri Lanka is to regulate Covid 19 testing being carried out by the private sector the, country’s Ministry of Health an...

November 2, 2020 2 min read

Autopsy being conducted on remains of special needs man to check for Covid

A post-mortem examination of the remains of the 36-year-old man with special needs who allegedly took his own life when ...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 2, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka stock market to operate on Monday

Sri Lanka's Colombo Stock Exchange said it will open for trading on Monday after Coronavirus curfews were extended till ...

November 2, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Covid-19 PCR tested Coronavirus contacts asked to stay at home amid delays

Sri Lanka is appealing Coronavirus contacts to stay at home amid delays in testing and hospitalization as curfews were e...

November 2, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka turns to divine help to contain Covid-19

Sri Lanka sought spiritual help Sunday to contain the surge in coronavirus infections even as the authorities relaxed ho...

November 1, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka finds 239 new Covid-19 cases from 12,000 Coronavirus tests

Sri Lanka has confirmed 239 Covid-19 patients from 12,000 Coronavirus tests Conducted on October 31, official data showe...

November 1, 2020 2 min read