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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් නිරෝධායනය සඳහා යොමු කරන ලද නිරූපණ ශිල්පිනී පියුමි හංසමාලි නිරෝධායන මධ්යස්ථානයක් කරා ගෙන යද්දී බස් රථය තුළ දැඩි ආවේගශීලීව අදහස් දක්වමින් අන්තර්ජාලයට වීඩියෝවක් මුදා හැර තිබේ. ඉන් ඇය කියා සිටින්නේ තමන් ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායම කොළඹ ආසන්න හෝටලයක නිරෝධායන සඳහා අවස්ථාව ඉල්ලා සිටියදී ඒ සඳහා අවස්ථාව නොදී කොළඹින් බැහැර බණ්ඩාරවෙල ප්රදේශයේ නිරෝධායන […]
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that islandwide travel restrictions will be further extended until June 14. He stated that the travel restrictions, which are currently in effect and had been initially extended until June 07 (Monday), will now remain in force until 4.00 a.m. on June 14. Accordingly, the islandwide travel restrictions […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In what appeared to be another radical step in global vaccine development, Russia informed Sri Lanka that its Sputnik V could even be used as a single shot vaccine following new clinical data about the development of 70-80 percent efficacy level after the first jab, an official said. Russia’s Gamaleya Research […]
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Friday, May 28th, 2021
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Wellington NZ, Spokesperson , USLA NZ The biggest of Sri Lanka’s woes is the truly unprecedented level of misinformation that goes on in Social media especially in English, which misrepresents any and every thing happening in Sri Lanka to discredit the government of the day and destroy the morale of it’s […]
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Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Vaccines from China’s Sinopharm successfully contained Covid-19, according to a study published in a prestigious U.S. medical journal, the first time detailed findings from a late-stage trial of a Chinese shot have appeared in the scientific literature. The two inactivated vaccines developed by Sinopharm’s vaccine-making unit China National Biotec Group Co. prevented symptomatic […]
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sinovac, China’s other front-runner COVID-19 vaccine, will be manufactured in Sri Lanka, says State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana. Developed by Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company ‘Sinovac’, the vaccine is officially named CoronaVac. It uses inactivated viral particles to create an immune response. The Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka […]
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Monday, May 24th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 24 (NewsWire) – The travel restriction currently enforced in Sri Lanka will be extended till the 7th of June. According to Minister Johnston Fernando, three days will be allocated during the extended travel restriction for the public to purchase essential goods. Travel restrictions extended till 07th June. Restrictions will be relaxed […]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2021
Courtesy The Mandarin Western Australia will be sending 18 ventilators and more than 10 million masks as part of an aid package to assist some of the worst hit nations battling COVID-19. WA premier Mark McGowan has moved to dispatch essential supplies to help manage the escalating public health crisis in India, Nepal and Sri […]
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to suspend arrival of passengers into Sri Lanka from midnight on May 21 until midnight on May 31, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced. Director General of Civil Aviation and Chief Executive Officer Capt. Themiya Abeywickrama, issuing a notice, said the decision was taken in a bid to prevent […]
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Monday, May 17th, 2021
By Frances Bulathsinghala/The Sunday Observer Colombo, May 16: This article will attempt to juxtapose the challenge of defeating terrorism that Sri Lanka faced and succeeded in May 2009 being the only country to defeat terrorism, with the challenge as well as potential we face to defeat a pandemic the world cannot. We defeated terror militarily […]
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Sunday, May 16th, 2021
By Nikhil Inamdar and Aparna Alluri Courtesy BBC News It took 31-year-old Sneha Marathe half a day to book an appointment online for a Covid vaccine. “It was a game of ‘fastest finger first’,” she says. “The slots filled up in three seconds.” But the hospital cancelled her slot at the last minute: they had […]
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Sunday, May 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A request has been made to prioritize Divisional Secretaries, Divisional Staff Officers, Samurdhi Development Officers, Agriculture Officers, and Grama Niladharis in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive. Speaking to the media in Dambulla today (16) the Minister of Public Services, Provincial Councils, and Local Government Janaka Bandara Tennakoon stated that he had made a […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
by Cassandra Willyard Courtesy Technologyreview.com The hype around scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. On May 10, the World Health Organization added a new virus to its list of covid-19 variants of global concern. The variant, B.1.617, is being blamed for the runaway infections in India. It is the fourth addition […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Passengers travelling on SriLankan Airlines to Australia are now required to provide a negative Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) prior to check-in for flights. As per the latest health guidelines issued by the Australian High Commission in Colombo, the prerequisite will come be enforced from tomorrow (May 15), the national carrier said in a […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank on Thursday (May 13) signed a USD 80.5 million additional financing to help Sri Lanka access and distribute COVID-19 vaccines and to strengthen the country’s vaccination system and pandemic response. Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Sajith Attygalle signed on behalf of the Government […]
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Thursday, May 13th, 2021
පෞද්ගලික සේවක මධ්යස්ථානය අමාත්ය නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා, කම්කරු හා වෘත්තිය සමිති සබදතා අමාත්ය, කම්කරු හා වෘත්තිය සමිති සබදතා අමාත්යංශය, කිරුල පාර, කොළඹ 05 2020/10/13 ඇමතිතුමනි, කොරෝනා වසංගතය හමුවේ පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයන්ට අඩ වැටුප් ගෙවීම හා කිසිදු සෞඛ්ය ආරක්ෂණ ක්රම භාවිත කිරීමකින් තොරව ආයතන පවත්වාගෙන යාම සම්බන්ධවයි කොරෝනා වසංගතය මෙරට තුළ වඩාත් සීඝ්රයෙන් පැතිරෙමින් පවතී. […]
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Thursday, May 13th, 2021
සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය ගරු සෞඛ්ය හා දේශීය වෛද්ය අමාත්ය සෞඛ්ය හා දේශීය වෛද්ය අමාත්යාංශය කොළඹ 10. මහත්මියනි, සෞඛ්ය වෛද්ය නිළධාරීන් ඇතුළුව #කොවිඩ් නිවාරණ කටයුතුවල යෙදී සිටින සෞඛ්ය කාර්යමණ්ඩල මුහුණ දී සිටින අනවරත ගැටළු සම්බන්ධවයි. ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල #කොවිඩ් වසංගතය ආරම්භ වූ 2020 මාර්තු මාසයේ සිට අද වන තුරු කිසිදු දිරි […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
By Bureau Report courtesy The Australia Today No one, I repeat, no one should die due to lack of medical care. Every death is painful and heart-wrenching, even if the country’s medical system is overburdened and doctors are toiling hard to save the Covid-19 patients amid an unprecedented surge of cases in the second wave. […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island If those who have taken the first dose of AstraZeneca are to receive a second jab of Sputnik V, they should take the first Sputnik V vaccine with adenovirus 26 (Ad26), Consultant Immunologist and head of the department of Immunology-MRI, Dr Nihan Rajiva de Silva says. Dr. de Silva […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today At long last Ayurveda Hospitals are permitted to treat the Covid-19 affected patients. This was revealed by State by Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle. Also, it was followed. by State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural and Ayurveda Hospitals Development and Community Health, Sisira Jayakody, […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යංශය සහ තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණ නියෝජිතායතනය (ICTA) සමඟ කළ සාකච්ඡාවක ප්රතිඵල අනුව කොවිඩ් එන්නත්කරණය වඩාත් කාර්යක්ෂම කිරීම සඳහා ඉදිරි දින කිහිපය තුළ නව තාක්ෂණයෙන් යුතු ඩිජිටල් හැඳුනුම්පතක් මහජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන බව තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද දින පැවසීය. එන්නත් කිරීම පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු ඇතුළත් මෙම නව […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A digital COVID vaccine identity card will be issued in near future in order to make the inoculation drive more efficient, says Minister of Youth and Sports Namal Rajapaksa. The initiative is expected to be implemented as a joint effort of the Health Ministry and Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA). This digital […]
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
Courtesy Times Muscat: Indian nationals looking to return to Oman and other countries of residence can no longer travel through Sri Lanka, after the island country stopped issuing visas to them, thereby preventing them from completing their quarantine processes there before flying to their destination. Since Oman had banned passengers flying directly from India, as well […]
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
මාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. මේ වන විට ශ්රී ලංකික ජනතාව මුහණ පා සිටින බරපතල සෞඛ්ය අවධානම පිළිබදව කිසිදු තැකීමක් නැති දේශපාලඥයන් සහ නිළධාරීන් නිසා සාමාන්ය මහජනතාවට ජීවිතයෙන් සමුගැනීමට සිදුවිය හැකි සිදුවීමක් පිලියන්දල ප්රදේශයේ වාර්තා වී තිබේ. කොවිඩ් රෝගීන් සංඛ්යාව ඉහල යාම නිසා එම ප්රදේශය භාරව කටයුතු කරන කැස්බෑව සෞඛ්ය වෛද්ය නිළධාරි වෛද්ය […]
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News One more review session of COVID-19 Task Force members on the control of the epidemic, chaired by General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, together with Dr Asela Gunawardena, Medical Specialist and Director General of Health Services got underway this afternoon (4) at the National […]
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana More than 63 percent of the Sri Lankan population can be comprehensively vaccinated before the end of this year, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Parliament today (May 04). This remark came as a response to an accusation levelled by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa that, who took aim at the government’s handling […]
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Courtesy The Times When I arrived in Mumbai, India was in denial. By the time I left the funeral pyres were raging. Now I pray my family will survive, writes Vidhi Doshi hen I got the phone call, I buried my face in the folds of my grandmother’s sari and cried. In one way, it […]
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Islamabad/Dubai/Johannesburg, May 1: In their report in Wall Street Journal, Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Yaroslav Trofimov in Dubai and Gabriele Steinhauser say that the explosion of Covid-19 cases in India and other developing nations is adding momentum to a push to suspend intellectual-property restrictions on vaccines, putting pressure on Washington, other Western governments and […]
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana State Minister Sisira Jayakody says that permission has been granted to utilize Ayurveda Hospitals to treat coronavirus patients. He stated that State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle has permitted Ayurveda Hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. Accordingly, the Ayurveda Hospitals in Rajagiriya, Navinna and Pallekele have […]
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Friday, April 30th, 2021
Yuen Sin Courtesy The Straits Times SINGAPORE – All long-term pass holders and short-term visitors who have been in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the last two weeks will no longer be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore, Education Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Friday (April 30). This move, which kicks in […]
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