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Sri Lanka COVID 19

Sri Lanka Coronavirus deaths rise to 58, new Covid-19 cases 704

Sri Lanka's has reported five new Coronavirus deaths taking the total to 58, Director General of Health Asela Gunewarden...

November 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus isolation in Colombo tightened, EDB, BOI firms can work

Sri Lanka has expanded isolated areas in the capital Colombo from 0500hours Monday with border controls on the Western p...

November 15, 2020 3 min read

Most of Colombo Central to be isolated from Monday  morning – Army Commander

Five more areas in the City of Colombo will be isolated from 5:00 AM on Monday, Nov 16, and they are Maradana, Fort, Pet...

November 14, 2020 1 min read

Police nab man for allegedly posting fake Covid story

Sri Lanka’s police have issued a stern warning to Social Media users who create and share fake news about the Covid 19...

November 14, 2020 2 min read
Sri Lanka makes progress in approving Pfizer vaccine, data awaited from China, Russia

Sri Lanka has made progress in analyzing data on a vaccine produced by Pfizer as a 'good one' based on analysis of data ...

Sri Lanka warned as study suggests AstraZeneca jab 10-pct effective on South Africa Covid-19 variant

Sri Lanka should take extra care at borders as a new study suggested that an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being rolled out...

Govt confirms Private Sector will not let go any employees due to COVID 19

The Private sector Employers’ Union has agreed not to terminate any employee due to the financial crisis created in th...

May 14, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Navy not hiding true situation at Welisara COVID 19 outbreak - Defense Secy

The Ministry of Defence is saying it is not hiding the seriousness of the issue of the number of Navy Personnel infected...

May 13, 2020 2 min read

Ten new cases of COVID 19 reported today - DG Health Services

Ten new COVID 19 positive cases have been reported today the Health Ministry said bringing the total infected in Sri Lan...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

Police probing fake statement offering relief payments for Lankans overseas

A CID investigation has begun into a fake press release written on a Presidential Secretariat letterhead offering allowa...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

School re-opening could take at least another month - Minister

The government is yet not fixing dates for schools to re-open and it would be done only on the advice of the health auth...

May 12, 2020 1 min read

President appoints seven new Ministry Secretaries; Army General for Health

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed six new Permanent Secretaries to Ministries bringing in two senior military m...

May 11, 2020 2 min read

No all day curfew in Puttalam and Kalutara districts

Police Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne said that curfew in Kalutara and Puttalam district have been lifted until further n...

Imesh Ranasinghe
May 11, 2020 3 min read

Supreme Court to examine FR petitions on elections next week

The Supreme Court will next Monday examine seven Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the holding of the Parliamenta...

May 11, 2020 2 min read

COVID 19 - Ranil wants testing increased as restrictions on movements are relaxed

Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is calling on the government to increase community testing of people for the ...

May 11, 2020 2 min read

Health Dept. - Navy cluster contributes more than half of COVID 19 positive total of 847

As of today more than half of the patients infected by COVID 19 in Sri Lanka since the outbreak are from the so-called N...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 9, 2020 2 min read
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Opposition challenges PBJ's request for goverment workers to donate salary

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is challenging the government’s statement that the country can save Rs 100 billion if the s...

May 9, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka bringing home migrant workers, students who want to repatriate

Sri Lanka is looking to repatriate citizens currently overseas by prioritizing them in an objective way, and this week a...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 9, 2020 4 min read

SJB asks Jasinghe to reveal how many PCR tests were done on VIP staff

The Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has filed a Right to Information request to the Director-General of Health S...

May 8, 2020 2 min read

Kurunegala Hospital Chief removed due to alleged failure to prepare for COVID 19

The government has removed the head of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital (KTH) because he has allegedly failed to prepare...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 8, 2020 2 min read

More than a million can lose jobs as COVID 19 ravages the economy - experts

More than a million Sri Lankans are likely to become unemployed or underemployed as the COVID 19 crisis ravages the econ...

Arjuna Ranawana
May 7, 2020 5 min read
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Total cases upto 795 as updates are released after the nightly news

The total number of COVID 19 positive cases in Sri Lanka rose to 795 today with 23 new cases reported according to the M...

May 6, 2020 2 min read

Four patients from yesterday declared COVID 19 negative - officials

Officials are saying that the last four patients who they first believed contracted COVID 19 have tested negative for th...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

COVID 19 - Officials trying to trace how last four patients became infected

Health authorities are unsure as to how the last four patients who contracted COVID 19 got the infection, a senior healt...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

Navy refutes stories that it is withdrawing from public duties

The Sri Lanka Navy is debunking stories that it is to temporarily withdraw from COVID-19 prevention duties as well as ro...

May 6, 2020 1 min read

Zoysa charges government with hiding COVID 19 deaths

Former MP Wijith Wijayamuni Zoysa is questioning whether the government is trying to cover-up the COVID-19 death count b...

Imesh Ranasinghe
May 6, 2020 2 min read