Courtesy Adaderana It has been decided that all persons who undergo the quarantine process at quarantine centers will be subjected to a Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, said Specialist Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. He mentioned this speaking at a special live discussion telecasted on TV Derana on overcoming […]

Courtesy Adaderana DIG Ajith Rohana says that spreading misinformation in social media on COVID-19 prevention can lead up to 5-year imprisonment. Speaking to Ada Derana this morning (07), he said cases will be filed against such persons. DIG Rohana also urged any individual showing coronavirus symptoms to inform the nearest police station, health authorities or […]

Courtesy The Times (UK) Ministers had hoped tests would pave way for an easing of lockdown restrictions None of the antibody tests ordered by the government is good enough to use, the new testing chief has admitted. John Newton said that tests ordered from China were able to identify immunity accurately only in people who […]

By  Chandre Dharmawardana. A number of distinguished medical professionals  led by Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa ,  Head, Dept. of Family Medicine,  University of Colombo, published an appeal (see  the Island , 1st April, Daily Mirror  and other newspapers) emphasizing the  Need for rapid expansion in testing for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka”. While creating a data base […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්                  කොරෝනා වසංගත තත්වය තුළ වර්තමාන දේශපාලනය පිළිබඳ ලිට්මස් පරීක්ෂාවක්ද කරන්නට හැකිව තිබේ. රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑය ඉදිරිපස දිව්රුම් දුන් ජනපතිවරයෙකු මෑත කාලීන දේශපාලනයේ දක්නට ලැබීමේ ආශ්වාදයෙන් සිටි මෙරට බහුතර ජනතාව බලාපොරොත්තු කඩ වේ දෝ යන බියකින් පසුවෙති.සිංහල බෞද්ධ චන්ද බහුතරය යනු පරම්පරා ගණණාවක සිට ශක්තිමත් වුණු සිංහල ජාතිකත්වයේ අපේක්ෂාවන්ය. තමන්ගේ ජීවන රටාව නිදහසේ […]

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Arundhati Roy: Courtesy Financial Times Life & Arts  The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next    Who can use the term gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag […]

By ASOKA BANDARAGE courtesy Asia Times Personal stress reduction certainly has merits in a crisis like the current one, but it can also be exploited and misused Calling the Covid-19 pandemic the worst crisis since World War II, one that may bring a recession with no parallel in the recent past,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිට ඉතාලිය බලා යාත්‍රා කරමින් තිබෙන MSC මැග්නිෆිකා නෞකාවේ සිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකික සූපවේදියා අද මෙරටට ගොඩබැස්සා. ඒ, නාවික හමුදාව හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය එක්ව දියත් කළ විශේෂ මෙහෙයුමකින්. අදාළ තරුණයාගේ ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප ඊයේ හිරු ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රවෘත්ති විකාශයන් තුළින් බලධාරීන්ගේ අවධානය යොමු කළ අතර එම තරුණයා දින 21 ක […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four more Covid-19 patients have recovered and have been discharged from hospital, according to the Ministry of Health.  This brings the total number of Coronavirus patient who have recovered in the country to 38. The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Sri Lanka currently stands at 178. 135 of those patients are […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa discussed matters relating to the prevailing situation in the wake of COVID-19 spread with the representatives of Samagi Jana Balawegaya at the Presidential Secretariat today (06). President Rajapaksa elaborated on the measures already taken by the Government to prevent the spread of the lethal virus […]

Courtesy Adaderana The suspect who stabbed a Public Health Inspector (PHI) who was on COVID-19 prevention duty has been produced before the Mawanella Magistrate’s Court today (06). Accordingly, the teenaged suspect has been ordered to be placed at the Consultation Centre of the Boys’ Detention House in Algoda, Dehiowita until the 25th of August. A […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that Sri Lanka’s health sector has always been ahead of the South Asian countries with regard to the coronavirus eradication program. She added that Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are now being carried out in many hospitals across the island to identify COVID-19 infections. The COVID-19 testing […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police says that 171 individuals have been arrested for violating the curfew within the period of 06 hours ending from 12 noon today (6). Issuing a statement, it said that 86 vehicles were also taken into custody during this period. Accordingly, as of 12 noon today police have arrested a total […]

Courtesy Adaderana A representative consortium of over 60 of Sri Lanka’s leading indigenous medical practitioners was invited to immediately explore possibilities of finding an alternative traditional medicine to cure the COVID-19 pandemic.  The meeting took place at the invitation of the Health Ministry and Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak […]

Courtesy Adaderana A woman has been remanded over spreading false information on the coronavirus through social media, stated the Police. Police had made the arrest in Wadduwa yesterday (05), based on an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The arrested suspect had been produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate yesterday and was placed […]

Sri Lanka News The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) today urged the health authorities to speed up the COVID-19 testing of some 42,000 personnel who have been in contact with over 160 patients tested positive for the virus in the country. GMOA member Dr. Naveen De Soyza said it was revealed at a meeting held […]

Aruna lk මේ වන විට මුලු ලෝකය ම ගිලගනිමින් සිටින මාරාන්තික කොරෝනා වෛරස් තත්ත්වය ඉතා පහසුවෙන් මර්ධනය කළ හැකි දේශීය ඖෂධයක් තමන් සතුව ඇති බව මෙරට ප්‍රධාන රෝහල් 4ක සේවය කරන විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරයකු හා තවත් බටහිර වෛද්‍යවරුන් 3 දෙනකු පවසයි.

Dilrook Kannangara The cremation/burial drama seems to be a distraction from the real issue – Tablighi Jamaat. The event held in New Delhi from March 13-15 by this group is the super spreader of the Coronavirus in India. 34 had participated from Sri Lanka too. An Introduction quoted from senior Indian bureaucrat, diplomat and politician […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island A veritable caterwaul of protest has erupted from local and international NGO quarters over the presidential pardon extended to a former soldier Sunil Ratnayake, who had been convicted and sentenced to death over an incident, in 2000, when eight Tamil persons including a five-year-old child were killed in […]

Dr sarath obeysekera COVID 19 -a virus originated from animals is one of the unproven theories. Powerful countries accuse each other of planting an artificially generated bio virus to destabilize each others’ might economic powers One scientist ( by the way a Sri Lankan) claims that it had arrived on the earth from another planet. […]

Courtesy Arab News DUBAI: For as long as he lived in Qatar, Antony, from Batticaloa in Sri Lanka, led a sort of double life. By day, he was a cleaner at the gleaming offices of Qatar Foundation and Qatar National Convention Center in north Doha.By night, he was a miserable occupant of a cramped room […]

Leena Dhankhar Courtesy The Hindustan Times Four men from Sri Lanka, who had allegedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin last month, tested positive for Covid-19, in the Nuh district on Sunday, said officials. Eight people have been confirmed to have Covid-19 from Nuh and seven of them had visited the congregation in […]

By Dr Lal Jayasinghe Consultant in Communicable Disease Control UK (retired) (member Public Health Writers Collective) Courtesy The Island Phwriters2020@gmail.com So far, we have done very well. Let us not forget this. We were very fortunate that the govt. listened to the right people and took their advice on how to control this epidemic namely […]

BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Courtesy The Island NEW DELHI, April 5: In a major breakthrough, Indian scientists have successfully developed a low-cost, paper-strip test which can detect the new coronavirus within an hour, and costs just INR 500, or LKR 1,250 (US$6.5). This will address India’s urgent need for rapid-testing. The test uses the cutting-edge gene-editing […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Five COVID-19 infected patients had been identified, bringing the total cases in Sri Lanka to 176, the Ministry of Health said.

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of Elections Commission Mahinda Deshapriya has urged action to prevent candidates from using relief activity for publicity campaign in the run-up to the election. He mentioned this in a letter directed to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Deshapriya noted that a special programme is essential for the implementation of relief measures to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Persons who have completed the quarantine process are requested to undergo another 14 days of self-isolation, stated the Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. The directive is issued for individuals who had undergone the quarantine process at the quarantine centers or at homes. It was reported today (05) that a person from Matara […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Each disaster that had hit us made us believe that we had hit rock bottom and nothing worse can happen again. Wasn’t a 33-year-old war which began with the Vadukoddai Resolution passed on May 14th 1976 and ended on May 19th 2009 enough to end all disasters? But new disasters came […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග  කොරෝනා වෛරසය (COVID-19 ) සීග්‍රයෙන් ලොව පුරා පැතිර යන මේ කාලයේ මිනිසුන් අතර බිය , ක්ලමථය (stress) , කාංසාව (anxiety) සහ විශාද(depression)  තත්වයන් ඇති විය හැකිය. තවද මිනිසුන් අතර සමාජ සබඳතා බිඳී යාම , රැකියා අවස්ථා සීමා වී ආර්ථික ප්‍රශ්න මතුවීම , ගමනාගමනයන් සීමා වීම වැනි තත්ව නිසා මිනිසුන් තුල සාමූහික […]