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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolates Hunupitiya, Cinnamon Garden sections, more areas released

Sri Lanka is isolating Hunupitiya Grama Niladari division in Slave Island, sections of Cinnamon Gardens and Wellawatte p...

December 6, 2020 1 min read

Covid-19 Sri Lanka deaths rise to 137, two home deaths in Bandaragama

Sri Lanka has confirmed seven Coronavirus deaths on December 05 including two Covid-19 home deaths from the Bandaragama ...

December 6, 2020 1 min read

HRCSL faults the authorities for the Mahara Prison deaths

Sri Lankan authorities are being faulted by the country’s Human Rights Council for the deaths of eleven inmates at the...

December 5, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka to welcome tourists from countries which will vaccinate citizens

Sri Lanka will admit tourists from countries which will begin to vaccinate their populations using a WHO-approved plan t...

December 4, 2020 2 min read
Gazette has been issued but no Muslim Covid victims body has been released for burial

Although the Islamic world has welcomed the decision by the Sri Lankan government to permit the burial of Muslim victims...

No official statement yet regarding permitting burial of Covid dead

There is yet no official statement confirming that the regulations stipulating the mandatory cremation of the remains of...

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
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SJB accuses govt of halting repatriations to keep COVID 19 numbers low

The Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) is saying that the government is delaying the repatriation of Sri Lankans ab...

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 15, 2020 2 min read

Civil Society organisations say the COVID 19 crisis should not be an excuse for militarization

Civil Society organisations are expressing grave concern regarding the establishment of a spate of Presidential Task For...

June 15, 2020 3 min read

COVID 19 – No crowds allowed to watch or participate at Pereheras in Kandy, Kataragama and other v...

COVID 19 will deal a devastating blow to places like Kandy and Kataragama as crowds are banned from gathering for the ma...

June 13, 2020 2 min read

President warns Bankers he will remove those who do not follow government guidelines and “fall in ...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is saying that the government is facing criticism that the banking system has not passed do...

June 12, 2020 2 min read

Urgent supplies sent to Lankans in the Maldives - Government

Sri Lanka has dispatched urgent supplies for its citizens in the Maldives who are facing difficulties due to the shortag...

June 11, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka delaying bringing back migrant workers due to shortage of hospital beds – Cabinet Spokes...

The government is saying it has had to delay the process of repatriating Sri Lankans abroad because the capacity of the ...

June 11, 2020 2 min read

Elections in the time of COVID-19; health authorities issue guidelines

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 10, 2020 7 min read

Sri Lanka refutes UN assertion that it has “clamped down” on freedom of expression over COVID 19

Sri Lanka is raising concern over a press release issued by the United Nations which alleged that the government has cla...

June 9, 2020 3 min read

American diplomat came back to get a PCR test - Foreign Minister

Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena says that the arriving US diplomat who was controversially allowed to exit...

June 8, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's disaster office given masks, Coronavirus clothing by US

The United States has given 48,000 masks, safety goggles and isolation gowns with hoods to Sri Lanka's Disaster Manageme...

June 8, 2020 1 min read