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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Ex-CID Chief Shani Abeysekara being transferred to IDH - Officials

The former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department SSP Shani Abeysekara is being transferred to the Infectious...

November 27, 2020 2 min read

HRCSL wants burial to be permitted for Covid 19 victims

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is asking the government to amend the regulations governing the disposa...

November 26, 2020 3 min read

Final decision about O/L exams by December 10 - GL

The final decision on the dates of the O/L examinations will be taken by 10 December depending on the resumption of scho...

November 26, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lankans will get vaccinated against Covid when WHO approves - Pavithra

Sri Lankans will get the vaccination against Covid 19 as soon as the World Health Organisation-approved vaccine is made ...

November 25, 2020 2 min read
Tourism Minister says MPs have a right to priority vaccination

Parliament members in the opposition are trying to spread the COVID-19 virus and create chaos in the country by deferrin...

International concern that Sri Lanka continues to cremate Muslim Covid dead

Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged to “push Sri Lanka to gazette” the step to end the forced cremati...

WHO advises the public to wear a mask as Sri Lanka sees a big jump in numbers

The World Health Organisation is updating its stance on wearing masks as a COVID 19 prevention measure the Reuters News ...

June 6, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka makes PCR test at the airport mandatory for all including foreign diplomats

Sri Lanka is setting strict guidelines for all diplomatic personnel entering the country with regard to the prevention o...

June 5, 2020 2 min read

Mahinda predicts Sri Lanka would emerge from COVID "shortly" if we follow guidelines

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that Sri Lanka’s famed hydrological civilization owes its growth to the advent o...

June 5, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka debunks rumors that Lankan migrant workers have committed suicide in Kuwait

Foreign Relations Ministry officials are denying Social Media chatter that two Sri Lankan migrant workers in Kuwait have...

June 4, 2020 2 min read

It will be an election in the time of COVID 19 - without the crowds and the razzle-dazzle

It will be an election in the time of COVID 19 and the concerts and the razzle-dazzle of a typical South Asian poll camp...

Arjuna Ranawana
June 3, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka wins new business providing services to Cruise Ships anchored outside Colombo Port

Sri Lanka is providing anchoring, sludging and crew transfer services to two Princess Liner ships anchored outside Colom...

Mahadiya Hamza
June 3, 2020 2 min read
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DMC gearing up to deal with floods, COVID 19 and Dengue this monsoon season

Sri Lanka Disaster Management Centre has laid out detailed plans and is ready to face any challenges in the upcoming mon...

Chanka Jayasinghe
June 3, 2020 3 min read

Forty more COVID 19 patients take total to 1,683; 27 from Qatar

Sri Lanka Disaster Management Centre has laid out detailed plans and is ready to face any challenges in the upcoming mon...

June 3, 2020 2 min read

Supreme Court dismisses FR petitions challenging the refusal to recall Parliament

The Supreme Court has refused leave to proceed for all 8 Fundamental Rights petitions that challenged the June 20 poll d...

June 2, 2020 1 min read

Mahinda Deshapriya - "Election Commission is not trying to delay Parliamentary Poll"

Chief Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya is assuring Sri Lankans that the Commission is not doing “anything und...

June 1, 2020 2 min read
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Uproar over crowds at Thondaman's funeral and Jeevan's behaviour

The Funeral of the late Minister Arumugam Thondaman held over the weekend is raising many questions about the quarantine...

Imesh Ranasinghe
June 1, 2020 3 min read

COVID 19 - Eleventh fatality is a Kuwait returnee, Health Dept

Sri Lanka has recorded the eleventh death from the COVID 19 pandemic, he is a 45-year-old man who had recently returned ...

June 1, 2020 1 min read

Curfew declared in Nuwara Eliya as Thondaman's funeral cavalcade enters town

A quarantine curfew has been declared from tonight until Sunday night in the Nuwara Eliya District as tens of thousands ...

May 29, 2020 1 min read

Ranil says UNP will never join a National Government

United National Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the party faithful that he will not enter into any agreement ...

May 29, 2020 2 min read
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COVID 19 - Managing Navy and Migrant worker clusters critical - GMOA

The Government Medical Officers Association is warning that managing the currently active COVID 19 clusters is critical ...

May 29, 2020 3 min read

All day curfews on Sunday May 31, June 4 and 5 to prevent gatherings - President's office

An all-island 24-hour curfew will be imposed this Sunday,  May 31, as well as the two days of Poson, the Presidential S...

May 28, 2020 1 min read

Gafoor building Navy contingent quarantined after Sailor tests positive for COVID 19

The COVID 19 Task Force has placed the Navy garrison stationed in the Gaffoor Building in the heart of Colombo Fort unde...

May 28, 2020 2 min read

Total number of COVID 19 cases now 1,469 as May 27 breaks records with 150 patients detected

The total number of patients detected yesterday May 27, has risen to 150 bringing the number in Sri Lanka since the outb...

May 28, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka adds two new hospitals to deal with rising COVID 19 patients

Sri Lanka has designated two recently built hospitals as treatment centres for COVID 19 patients as the numbers with the...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 27, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19 toll rises as more Navy Personnel test positive

Sri Lanka’s COVID 19 toll continues to rise as 52 new patients were diagnosed today the government announced, bringing...

May 27, 2020 1 min read