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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Government considering opening Tuition classes on Jan 25 – Prof GL

The government is seriously considering the re-opening of tuition classes throughout the country on January 25th when sc...

January 8, 2021 2 min read

Muslim leader accuses Govt. of attempt to radicalise youth by denying burial

A leading Civil Society activist from the Muslim community is calling on members of his community to do their best to pr...

January 8, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka will continue to cremate all Covid dead - Minister

Sri Lanka will continue to cremate the bodies of all its citizens who die of Covid 19 whatever social or religious objec...

January 7, 2021 2 min read

India’s economic recovery will benefit Sri Lanka – Dr Jaishankar

India’s Covid numbers have come down sharply and with vaccination in sight, India’s economic recovery will be “ful...

January 6, 2021 3 min read
Sri Lanka shuts schools in Western, Wayamba provinces

Other provinces to remain open, 952 new cases on Monday

Sri Lanka bans public events, parties to contain Covid-19 wave

Sri Lanka's government halts all state functions and invokes Covid-19 quarantine regulations to ban private functions to...

Sri Lanka has not decided on a wider Coronavirus lockdown, Brandix Covid-19 cluster being traced

Sri Lanka has not decided on a wider Coronavirus lockdown of Gampaha district or the country but contacts of the Brandix...

October 6, 2020 6 min read

Sri Lanka new Coronavirus cluster tops 100; Gampaha residents urged to stay home

Sri Lanka has so far confirmed 101 persons from a Coronavirus cluster being traced out of an apparel factory in Minuwang...

October 5, 2020 4 min read

Covid 19 cases in the latest cluster in Minuwangoda total 101 – Information Dept

Sri Lankan authorities may enforce further localized curfews and lockdowns tomorrow as the number of Covid 19 positive c...

October 5, 2020 2 min read

No plan to enforce countrywide curfew – Director-General Information

The government has no plan and no need to enforce a countrywide curfew, the Director-General of Government Information N...

October 5, 2020 1 min read

Officials say don’t panic as number infected by newest Covid cluster climbs to 84

The Health authorities are reassuring the public saying there is no reason to panic and start clearing out the shelves i...

Imesh Ranasinghe
October 5, 2020 2 min read

Seventy Covid-19 positive cases now in the Minuwangoda, Divulapitiya and Veyangoda areas - officials

The Covid Prevention Task Force is investigating three-clusters of possible Covid patients related to the dioscovery of ...

October 5, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus curfew widened to Veyangoda; fever patients in Gampaha urged to Covid test

Residents of Gamapaha district, bordering Sri Lanka's capital Colombo showing fever symptoms have been asked to get a Co...

October 4, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka hunts source of Divulapitiya Covid-19 case under curfew, public vigilance urged

Sri Lanka is tracing contacts and is hunting for the index case of a Coronavirus patient that turned up from the communi...

October 4, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka’s newest Covid patient has “emerged from the community” – Chief Epidemiologist

Sri Lanka is confirming that the newest Covid 19 patient that was identified last night “has emerged from the communit...

October 4, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka closes schools after Covid-19 patient found from the community

The government closed Schools and tuition classes in the Gampaha district from today as the Covid 19 Prevention Task For...

October 4, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka finds Covid-19 patient from Divulapitiya, Gampaha hospital staff isolated

Sri Lanka has isolated 15 staff at Gamaha hospital after a 39 -year old woman from Divulapitiya was confirmed with Coron...

October 4, 2020 1 min read

US President Donald Trump tests positive for Coronavirus

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania has tested positive for Coronavirus after a top aide was confirmed with...

October 2, 2020 1 min read

Eleven new Covid patients diagnosed - NOCPOC

Eleven new COVID-19 patients were identified in Sri Lanka as at 6am today (30), the National Operations Centre for Preve...

September 30, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka port doctor and 50 workers quarantined over Covid-19 India crew

Sri Lanka in the last two days has quarantined close to 50 persons including the harbour doctor after employees of JCT ...

September 29, 2020 1 min read

Russian Airman has had Covid 19 and has recovered - Epidemiologist

The Russian airman who created panic in Matara by seen shopping after testing positive for Covid 19 has had the disease ...

Mahadiya Hamza
September 26, 2020 6 min read

Inquiry into Matara Covid incident proceeding as contacts are quarantined - officials

The inquiry as to how members of a Russian Aircrew had been sent to a hotel which was not a designated quarantine centre...

September 25, 2020 2 min read

SAARC countries should come together to ensure post-Covid recovery - Dinesh

Sri Lanka has stressed the need for South Asian countries to collaborate to revive the economies of the region which is ...

September 25, 2020 2 min read

Covid Task Force urges the public not to relax their guard against the virus

The authorities are warning the public not to relax their guard against the Covid 19 virus saying the risk of infection ...

September 19, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise to 13 with foreign returnee, total Covid-19 positive 3,235

A 60-year old seaman who returned from Bahrain had died in hospital on September 14, taking the total death related to C...

September 14, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka calls for regional effort to overcome task of economic recovery

Sri Lanka is stressing the need for Asian countries to come together to face the uphill task of economic recovery and re...

September 13, 2020 2 min read