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Sri Lanka to sign on Covid vaccine phase two

Sri Lanka will sign part two of the COVAX agreement with the World Health Organisation this week which will enable the c...

January 5, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka will continue repatriation but at a slower pace – Foreign Secy

Sri Lanka will continue the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad at a slow pace due to the capacity of the quarantine cent...

January 4, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lankans banned from Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya when Ukrainians visit

Sri Lanka will restrict access to important religious and archaeological sites to its citizens as a group of Ukrainian t...

January 3, 2021 2 min read

Expert committee says burial of Covid 19 dead can take place with precautions

The expert committee advising the government on the disposal of the remains of those who die of the Covid 19 virus is re...

January 2, 2021 5 min read
Sri Lanka warned over new Coronavirus crisis as Covid-19 cases tops 900

Sri Lankans have been warned to stay home for the next two weeks as a post-New Year Coronavirus wave sent daily Covid-19...

Sri Lanka public told to stay home, cancel celebrations 'to save your life and loved ones'

Sri Lanka is on a dangerous track as a suspected new Coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly after New Year celebration...

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
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Sri Lanka university gets Covid-19 antibody testing kits

Charities World Vision and Citi Foundation said they had given 1,100 Covid-19 ant-body testing kits to Sri Lanka's Sri J...

August 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths go to 12 with foreign returnee

Sri Lanka has recorded it’s the twelfth death from Coronavirus with a foreign returnee from India passing away the sta...

August 23, 2020 1 min read

President’s actions leading this country towards autocracy – Harin Fernando

The Opposition is criticizing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s policy statement made to Parliament yesterday saying it h...

August 22, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka has post-poll mini-spike in Covid cases as repatriation flights resume

Sri Lanka is seeing a post-election mini-spike in Covid cases as the government resumes flights repatriating citizens pa...

August 22, 2020 2 min read

Most Sri Lankans stranded in the Middle-East can’t afford the pricey tickets home - Returnee

Sri Lanka resumed flights to bring back migrant workers from Kuwait today, but returnees say many Sri Lankans remain stu...

Imesh Ranasinghe
August 20, 2020 2 min read
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Conditional permission granted for state-run schools to re-open

The government has granted conditional permission for schools throughout the country to re-open even if they have more t...

August 19, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka ramping up random testing for Covid 19 - officials

Sri Lanka is ramping up random testing for Covid 19 with 37,000 random PCR tests planned in August countrywide, official...

Chanka Jayasinghe
August 18, 2020 2 min read

Opinion: Leading For a New Safe and Prosperous Normal

The threat of Covid-19 still haunts us even though Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the world, keeping it at bay...

Nipuna Kumbalathara
August 16, 2020 10 min read

COVID Update: This week has seen 43 more patients detected mostly returnees

Sri Lanka’s Health Services is reporting that 43 new COVID 19 cases were detected in the week from last Saturday, Augu...

August 15, 2020 1 min read

COVID UPDATE: Only one new patient reported this morning

Sri Lanka has identified only one new COVID-19 patient as at 6 am this morning, National Operations Centre for Preventio...

August 14, 2020 1 min read