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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Powerful Order of Buddhist Monks, Christians and Hindus ask for burial of Covid victims

One of the country’s biggest Chapter of Buddhist Monks the joint Amarapura-Ramanna sect is asking President Gotabaya R...

December 27, 2020 3 min read

No link between incineration of Mink bodies in Denmark and Covid in the groundwater – experts

The decision by the Danish government to incinerate the remains of millions of Mink who were slaughtered and buried afte...

December 26, 2020 4 min read

Life is tough in locked-down Covid infected inner-city Colombo

Death, hunger, loss of livelihood and scarce access to on-line learning are daily occurrences for people living in Covid...

December 25, 2020 8 min read

Coronavirus tests at 17 Sri Lanka Western Province exits over Christmas: Army Chief

Sri Lanka authorities will conduct rapid Coronavirus tests at 17 exit points from the Western Province in a bid to reduc...

December 24, 2020 1 min read
Argentina president tests positive after getting Sputnik vaccine

Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for Coronavirus after getting two doses of Russia's Sputnik ...

Restarting South Asia: The Tea industry faces up to its challenges

The coronavirus pandemic wrought havoc on almost all walks of life, and the various industries ranging from commodities,...

Sri Lankan citizens under COVID 19 quarantine denied the vote at this election

Several thousand Sri Lankans who will be in quarantine for COVID 19 on Election Day will not be able to vote as previous...

Arjuna Ranawana
August 3, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka plans random Coronavirus tests nation-wide as new Covid-9 cluster reigned in - Update

Sri Lanka is planning random Coronavirus tests island-wide a top official said as health authorities are tracing and qua...

Chanka Jayasinghe
July 30, 2020 3 min read

COVID 19 patient identified at Lankapura Divisional Secretariat - Govt.

July 30, 2020 1 min read

The Friday Forum questions the call to hand over more powers to the President

A group of eminent personalities are questioning the call for handing over more powers to the Presidency by abolishing t...

July 30, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka will resume full repatriation of migrant workers from August 9 - officials

Sri Lanka will fly home some 600 migrant workers from Abu Dhabi and Dubai on July 31 and August 1, but begin full repatr...

July 29, 2020 2 min read

Eligible voters under quarantine can vote after 5 pm on polling day – Elections Commission

Sri Lankan citizens who are eligible to vote in the Parliamentary General Elections and are quarantined due to COVID 19 ...

July 29, 2020 2 min read

Jordanian Police rescue Sri Lanka Embassy staff held hostage by migrant workers

Jordanian police fired tear gas to help rescue three staffers of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Jordan who were being held ho...

July 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s youth are unlikely to vote for the old guard in Parliament

Sri Lanka’s youth, many of them first-time voters, who gave Gotabaya Rajapaksa a huge majority at the Presidential ele...

Imesh Ranasinghe
July 28, 2020 9 min read

Sri Lanka reaches the 150,000 mark for PCR Tests - NOCP

Sri Lanka has passed the 150,000 mark for PCR tests with 1,380 tests done yesterday, the National Operations Centre for ...

July 27, 2020 1 min read

Vietnam re-deploys Coronavirus controls after second Covid-19 patient found - Update II

Vietnam has found a second Covid-19 patient in the central city of Da Nang, the Health Ministry said on July 26, with th...

July 26, 2020 3 min read
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Opinion: Sri Lanka ruling party is ahead with 12 days to go for Parliamentary polls

Sri Lanka is nearing the end of the Parliamentary General Election campaign, and the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna ...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 25, 2020 10 min read
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COVID positive inmate from Kandakadu nabbed by Army Intelligence near National Hospital – Army

Army Intelligence officers found and arrested a COVID 19 positive inmate from the Kandakadu Rehabilitation camp who had ...

July 24, 2020 1 min read

COVID positive inmate from Kandakadu is on the loose after escaping from IDH - Police

Police are seeking public assistance to hunt down a COVID 19 positive inmate from the Kandakadu Rehabilitation camp who ...

July 24, 2020 2 min read
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No new COVID-19 cases reported yesterday – National Centre for Prevention of COVID

No new COVID-19 cases were reported during the 24- hour period that ended at 6 a.m. this morning, National Operations Ce...

July 22, 2020 1 min read

One patient from Kandakadu rehabilitation centre moved to IDH

One patient from the Medical Facility created at the Kandakadu Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment centre for COVID 19 pat...

July 22, 2020 2 min read

Teacher who gave tuition in the Gampaha area newest COVID 19 victim

Sri Lanka will quarantine around 600 people after a local Teacher in the Gampaha area was tested positive for COVID 19 t...

July 21, 2020 2 min read

Kandakadu cluster total goes up to 561 two more Navy patients are still in hospital

Sri Lanka’s latest COVID 19 cluster produced one more case last night after a family member of a staffer at the Kandak...

July 21, 2020 1 min read

The World has no trust in the Sri Lanka government's COVID story – Eran

The international community does not seem to trust all the stories, facts and narratives coming out of the government ab...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 20, 2020 3 min read
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Kandakadu cluster’s number of Coronavirus positive patients rises to 560

The number of COVID-19 positive patients from the Kandakadu cluster has risen to 560 increasing the total number of pati...

July 20, 2020 1 min read

Gazetted Health Regulations for Elections are more relaxed than what was stipulated by the Health De...

Election watchdogs are expressing alarm that the Gazetted rules the August 5 election is to be conducted under are consi...

July 19, 2020 2 min read