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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Sri Lanka has asked India for Covid 19 vaccines - Indian FM

Sri Lanka has conveyed its interest in accessing COVID-19 vaccines from India, Delhi’s top envoy External Affairs Mini...

January 6, 2021 2 min read

Opinion: Moving Towards Necessary Balance

With multiple challenges ahead such as resolving the issue of burial of Muslims who die of Covid 19 and the contentious ...

January 6, 2021 7 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolates Eheliyagoda, Pujapitiya areas; death in Matale

Sri Lanka has Coronavirus isolated areas in Pujapitiya and Eheliyagoda while several areas in Akkaraipattu had been rel...

January 6, 2021 1 min read

Two Indian companies to roll out Covid vaccines

Two of India’s biggest Pharmaceutical companies have jointly announced that they will develop, manufacture and supply ...

January 5, 2021 2 min read
Sri Lanka new Covid wave claims two foreigners

Total cases rise to 100,000 as Sri Lankan health authorities warn of a more deadly Covid variant

Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolates area in Kaluthara

Sri Lanka has locked down Adikarigama in South Kaluthara as 18 and 35 year-olds die from Covid-19 induced pneumonia

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 ...

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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
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Bakeer Markar makes appeal to repatriate unemployed migrant workers

Parliamentarian Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is proposing that the government prioritize the return of more than 50,000 Sri Lan...

September 12, 2020 3 min read

No new Covid patients today - Operations Centre

No new COVID-19 patients were reported in Sri Lanka as at 6 am today (Sep 08), the government said. Yesterday two patien...

September 8, 2020 1 min read

Dubai returnee dies while in quarantine due to infected wound - Officials

A returnee from Dubai has died while undergoing quarantine in Nuwara Eliya but not from Covid related symptoms officials...

September 7, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka still in Forbes’s ranking of top 100 safest countries during Covid

Sri Lanka has slipped down seven places in Forbes’s ranking of the safest countries on earth during the Covid pandemic...

September 7, 2020 2 min read

Covid 19 update: One more inmate at Kandakadu tests positive

One more inmate at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation and Treatment centre has been diagnosed as contracting Covid 19 as five ...

September 6, 2020 1 min read

US gives Sri Lanka enough ventilators to boost ICU capacity 40-pct

The United States has given Sri Lanka enough mechanical ventilators to boost the island's pre-Coronavirus intensive car...

September 2, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka adds two more Covid patients to bring total to 2,986

Sri Lanka has identified two new COVID-19 patients as at 6 am this morning on August 28, the National Operations Centre ...

August 28, 2020 2 min read

Government violated the Constitution by passing Votes on Account without Parliament - Harsha

The Main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) says the government should admit it violated the constitution when it a...

August 27, 2020 2 min read
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By using Mattala and Katunayake airports repatriation will be speeded up – officials

Sri Lanka will use two of its international airports at Katunayake and Mattala for the repatriation of Lankans abroad wh...

August 27, 2020 2 min read
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Stranded American praises Sri Lanka’s healthcare after having her appendix out

Eliana Apicella, is among the many tourists in Sri Lanka who is stranded in Sri Lanka because of Covid. And adding to th...

August 25, 2020 1 min read