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Sri Lanka COVID 19

“Muslims are protesting by not consenting to cremations” – Shreen Saroor

Sri Lanka’s Muslims are not abandoning the remains of their relatives who died of Covid 19 but are not cooperating wit...

December 10, 2020 3 min read

Health authorities cannot accept responsibility for anti-Covid potion - Epidemiologist

Chief Epidemiologist Dr Sudath Samaraweera said that the health authorities cannot accept responsibility for a large num...

December 9, 2020 4 min read

Anti-Covid potion draws tens of thousands in Kegalle as danger looms

Tens of thousands have gathered at a temple in the Hettimulla area in the Kegalle district today as 5,000 free samples o...

December 8, 2020 5 min read

Brandix workers probably got Covid from a foreign source - Minister

Sri Lanka’s Minister tasked with dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic Dr Sudharshini Fernandopulle believes that staff a...

December 7, 2020 2 min read
Muslim burials issue: Iranativu islanders don’t want Covid 19 dead buried in their backyards

Residents of the island of Iranativu off the Gulf of Mannar are protesting against the decision announced yesterday by t...

Marikkar accuses officials of dragging their feet on the burial of Covid dead

The opposition is slamming officials for dragging their feet on the issue of burials for the remains of people who die o...

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
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Museums and other local attractions to open to domestic tourists from July

Giving a fillip to domestic tourism the Cultural Ministry has decided to re-open all the Museums and other attractions r...

June 26, 2020 1 min read

Weddings in Kandy are keeping the Hill Capital’s Hotels ticking

Sri Lanka's cultural capital Kandy’s COVID battered tourism industry is seeing business ticking over as the wedding se...

Mahadiya Hamza
June 26, 2020 5 min read

Up to a hundred can now gather at Temples, Churches and Mosques as the rules are further relaxed

With the government increasingly confident that there is no community spread of the COVD 19 virus, the Health Authoritie...

June 25, 2020 2 min read

Only a small number of migrant workers want to return to Sri Lanka – Cabinet Spokesman

Co-Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena said 9,580 Sri Lankans from 38 countries who wanted to return has been brought ...

June 25, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's central bank explains Covid-19 credit scheme in FAQs

Sri Lanka's central bank has explained the details of a credit scheme for Coronavirus hit businesses in the form of a fr...

June 21, 2020 24 min read

Deported COVID 19 positive Indian passenger hospitalised at IDH

A Bombayite is a guest of the Sri Lankan government, not in the sense of an incarcerated person or an invited personage....

June 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Welisara Navy base epicentre of the biggest COVID 19 cluster to re-open soon - Defence S...

Sri Lanka’s defence authorities are expressing confidence that they have the largest cluster of COVID 19 patients, whi...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 17, 2020 3 min read

“President’s vision helped us to control COVID” - Kamal Guneratne

The Secretary to the Ministry of Defense Major General Kamal Guneratne is claiming that the combination of the Security ...

June 16, 2020 1 min read

“Cured” COVID patient relapses and is admitted to the IDH

A Kuwait returnee who was declared COVID 19 positive and treated and released from hospital is showing signs of the dise...

June 16, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka COVID positive number closes in on the two thousand mark as repatriation flights continue

Sri Lanka’s total number of people diagnosed with COVID 19 nudged closer to the two-thousand mark last night as more r...

June 16, 2020 3 min read