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Two more Covid 19 patients have died bringing the total dead from the virus in Sri Lanka to 48 the Director-General of H...
The Health authorities have issued a set of guidelines to those celebrating the Hindu festival of light – Deepavali - ...
Sri Lanka's has barred travel in and out the Western Province as daily Coronavirus cases hit 635 and Covid-19 deaths ros...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered that all entrances and exits from the Western Province be closed from midnight ...
Sri Lanka has reported seven new Coronavirus deaths with an 18-month old baby passing away, taking the total to 330, the...
Leading Community PhysicianDr Nihal Abeysinghe predicts the daily rate will go over a thousand shortly.
Beauty Parlours, Barber Saloons and similar institutions may re-open once they get certification from the Health Authori...
The number of COVID 19 patients since the outbreak rose to 760 this evening as nine new patients were diagnosed today th...
Two new clusters of COVID 19 positive patients have emerged in the Colombo district and another cluster from Kandy today...
The number of COVID 19 patients rose by 33 yesterday as the eighth death from the disease was recorded, the Health Minis...
The Sri Lanka government has confirmed that an eighth person has died from the COVID 19 disease today May 4. An announc...
The two men who died at the Mullaitivu quarantine centre last week did not succumb to COVID-19, a military spokesman sai...
The Tamil National Alliance has stated that although it has attended the meeting called by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapa...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is saying that the opposition is wanting the old Parliament reconvened so that they can...
The United National Party is also not attending the meeting of all former members of the recently dissolved parliament c...
The total number of COVID 19 positive patients in Sri Lanka since the outbreak in March this year has risen to 705 by mi...
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The Opposition says it cannot understand why Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited all members of the recently di...
Former Opposition MP Hesha Withanage is saying that the government should take full responsibility for putting the lives...
Sri Lanka’s economy is among the worst affected by the current COVID 19 crisis, according to a ranking published by th...
Many of the ex-Members of Parliament from the Opposition invited by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to meet at Temple T...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has rejected the proposal by most political parties present in the recently dissolved Parli...
The Sri Lankan government says it has brought home 1065 Sri Lankan students based in the South Asian region, over the la...
The government is cracking down on drug dealers who it says are causing the spread of the COVID 19 disease as four more ...
The government cannot predict whether there will be new clusters of COVID 19 positive patients emerging although the Hea...
The government has extended the validity of curfew passes issued for the month of April until the end of May in an indic...
The government cannot predict whether there will be new clusters of COVID 19 positive patients emerging although the Hea...
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