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Sri Lanka COVID 19

People who refuse PCR Tests can be charged - Police spokesman

Sri Lanka’s Police Spokesman is saying that a person who refuses a PCR test can be charged with maliciously spreading ...

December 14, 2020 2 min read

Mourning dead Muslim infant who was cremated

Activists today Saturday, December 12, tied white cloths to the gates of Sri Lanka’s biggest graveyard in protest agai...

December 12, 2020 1 min read

Isolation orders for six areas in Colombo lifted – Army Chief

Six housing complexes in inner-city Colombo which had been declared no-go zones over Covid 19 infections have been relea...

December 12, 2020 1 min read

ADB starts US$9bn Covid-19 vaccines fund for Asian developing countries

Manila-based Asian Development Bank said it had started a 9 billion US dollar fund to help member countries buy vaccines...

December 11, 2020 2 min read
Muslim Covid burials issue: First bodies to be buried in Ottamavadi in Batticaloa

Today’s burials bring to an end the long drawn out campaign by the Muslims and some Christian groups for the right of ...

No PCR testing where vaccinations are taking place - Dr Herath

The reduction of PCR tests is due to the drop in the number of Covid 19 patients because of extensive control of cluster...

Sri Lanka's confirms 492 Coronavirus cases in new Covid-19 cluster

Sri Lanka has confirmed 492 Coronavirus cases in a Covid-19 cluster linked to a drug rehabilitation centre in Kandakadu ...

July 13, 2020 1 min read

COVID 19 – Schools closed for a week from tomorrow as COVID 19 spread fears rise

Sri Lankan authorities have ordered all schools and private tuition classes closed for a week from tomorrow as fears of ...

July 12, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s newest COVID 19 cluster linked to another that erupted in April – Dr Anil Jasinghe

Sri Lanka’s newest COVID 19 cluster that has produced more than 300 new cases is linked directly to a cluster that eme...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 11, 2020 5 min read

Chief Elections Commissioner warns of “grave danger” of COVID 19 spread at crowded rallies

Sri Lanka’s Chief Elections Commissioner is warning that because people attending the political rallies are not follow...

July 10, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka finds more than 200 COVID 19 patients at Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre Cluster

Sri Lankan authorities have found 252 COVID 19 positive patients in a drug rehabilitation centre in the North Central Pr...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 10, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka may find more COVID 19 cases at virus struck rehabilitation centre – Army Chief

Sri Lankan authorities are doing their best to prevent an outbreak of COVID 19 in a drug rehabilitation centre from spre...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 10, 2020 3 min read

New COVID 19 Cluster may be emerging at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre in Polonnaruwa

Sri Lanka may be seeing the possibility of a new cluster of COVID 19 infected persons emerging after 56 inmates and staf...

Arjuna Ranawana
July 9, 2020 3 min read

More relief for electricity consumers struggling to pay inflated bills caused by the COVID lockdown

The Cabinet of Ministers at their weekly meeting today considered a number of concessions for consumers proposed by Powe...

July 9, 2020 2 min read

How a Prison inmate became infected with COVID 19 is still a mystery - officials

Officials are still trying to figure out how an inmate at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre for addicts was infected w...

July 8, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka COVID19: Welikada Prison hospital inmates test negative as officials scramble to trace inf...

Tests for COVID 19 on 170 inmates of the Welikada Prison hospital have returned negative, officials said today. The test...

July 7, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka scrambles counter Coronavirus measures after prison inmate tests positive

Sri Lanka is scrambling to deploy containment action in a remand prison in the capital Colombo after a recently transfer...

July 7, 2020 1 min read

Government breaking the COVID rules at election meetings - SJB

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is complaining that the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is not abiding by the COVID pre...

July 6, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka sea marshal tests negative on later PCR tests

A sea marshal who tested positive for Coronavirus when he was in home quarantine in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo after re...

July 5, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19: Twenty-nine families quarantined in Jinthupitiya in Colombo after returning Seaman tests p...

The Health Authorities are placing more than 150 people in the Jinthupitiya inner-city area of Colombo under quarantine ...

July 3, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka returnee confirmed with Coronavirus in Colombo home quarantine

A Sri Lanka sea marshal, who was in home quarantine after completing a 14-days a quarantine centre upon returning to th...

July 3, 2020 2 min read

GMOA calls for increased testing to confirm that there is no community transmission of COVID 19

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) is calling on the government to increase random testing for COVID 19 ...

June 30, 2020 1 min read

Pompeo and Dinesh talk about Millennium Challenge Compact deal - Ministry

US Secretary of State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have discussed th...

June 30, 2020 1 min read

Watchdogs call for a clean poll but expect the Media to fight dirty like last year

The Presidential Election of 2019 was the poll where Social Media played a major role and widespread unethical conduct w...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 29, 2020 5 min read

Re-opening date for tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka not yet confirmed – Admiral Jayanath Colombage

A senior official in the Presidential Secretariat, Admiral Jayanath Colombage (Rtd.) says the date to reopen the Katunay...

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 26, 2020 3 min read

Shortsighted to see post-COVID situation as just an economic crisis: Sisira Pinnawala

Prof (retired) Sisira Pinnawala of the Department of Sociology at the University of Peradeniya warns that it is shortsig...

Himal Kotelawela
June 26, 2020 4 min read