Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a variant of COVID-19 feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been found in over a dozen countries. The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 first found in India had as of Tuesday been detected in over […]

Written By Pritesh Kamath Courtesy Republicworld   As India battles devastating COVID-19 crisis, the US has decided to lift embargo on export of raw materials required by SII for production of Covishield. As India battles the devastating second wave of COVID-19 pandemic with the nation clocking more than 3 lakh cases every day and making […]

Courtesy BBC Funeral pyres have been built in parks and other empty spaces after Delhi’s crematoriums reached capacity Crematoriums in the Indian capital Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres, as the city runs out of space to cremate its dead. Staff are working around the clock, while parks and other empty spaces […]

Courtesy Adaderana Education Minister Professor G.L Peiris announced that all schools, pre-schools and Piriven in the Western and North Western provinces will remain closed until the 30th of April, 2021. This decision has been taken as a precaution due to the recent surge in new COVID-19 cases. However, the schools in other provinces will reopen […]

Courtesy Doctorharold.com Transcript: As the vaccine to protect against COVID-19 continues to roll out to more and more people, there is bound to be more and more side effects. Today, we are discussing the most dreaded side effect, i.e., Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (CVT)” Great concern of the people today is to have the COVID-19 vaccine […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, April 24 (Daily Mirror) – The guidelines for tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka is expected to be updated owing to the present COVID19 situation, Tourism Ministry sources told the Daily Mirror yesterday. The move comes after the health authorities issued new health guidelines for the country effective till May 31. Tourism […]

Courtesy India Today Researchers in Sri Lanka say they have detected a new variant of coronavirus on the island nation which is highly transmissible and can remain airborne for nearly an hour. Sri Lanka is reporting over 600 new cases each day. HIGHLIGHTS The variant is highly transmissible: immunologist Neelika Malavige Sri Lanka’s ministry of […]

Courtesy Outlook Scientists say that the new coronavirus strain can remain airborne for nearly an hour and it is spreading fast in the island nation In the backdrop of a Covid-19 resurgence in many parts of the globe, researchers in Sri Lanka have discovered a new, highly potent strain of coronavirus. According to scientist, the […]

Courtesy RT The Sri Lankan health minister has informed parliament that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has led to three deaths, as well as three additional cases of non-fatal blood clotting. Speaking to the Sri Lankan parliament on April 21, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi explained that there had been six cases of blood clotting after the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that a decision has been taken to conduct at least 15,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests per day in the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Special Review Task Force of the Health Ministry, held under the patronage of Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi.

Courtesy Adaderana Three individuals who had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Sri Lanka have died of blood clotting, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Parliament today (April 21). In response to a question raised by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, the Health Minister stated that Sri Lanka has reported a total of six cases […]

Courtesy BBC India is reeling under a severe second wave of Covid-19 and many states are struggling to cope with the rising numbers. Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, is among the worst affected in the country and its people are suffering even as authorities insist the situation is under control, reports the BBC’s Geeta […]

Soutik Biswas  India correspondent Courtesy BBC In early March, India’s health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was “in the endgame” of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as an “example to the world in international co-operation”. From January onwards, India had begun shipping doses to foreign countries as […]

Courtesy BBC India will be added to the government’s travel-ban red list from Friday 23 April. It came after Boris Johnson cancelled his planned trip to the country because of the Covid situation there. India has been reporting more than 200,000 cases daily since 15 April. But Pakistan and Bangladesh have both been on the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Some restrictions will have to be imposed on arrivals from overseas taking into account the uptick in positive cases of COVID-19 among individuals arriving in Sri Lanka, says the Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera. In a statement, he said Sri Lanka has registered 52,710 coronavirus infections so far in 2021 with 1,593 of […]

Courtesy The Guardian India should be placed on the UK’s red list” for travel after the discovery of a new coronavirus variant, according to a leading scientist. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Prof Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, says it is mystifying” and confounding” that those flying in from the country are […]

Shweta Sharma and Samuel Lovett  Courtesy The Independent An elderly woman gasped for air at the main 1,000-bed Covid hospital in Mumbai, India, even as a ventilator pumped oxygen into her lungs. She collapsed after hours of struggling for each breath, but came round again after doctors performed CPR to stimulate her heart back to […]

By https://www.news-medical.net/Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D Courtesy  By investigating antibody and T cell responses to a single dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, researchers from Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom have found that more than 90% of vaccinated individuals produced an adequate amount of antibodies after receiving only one dose of the vaccine – […]

Courtesy Adaderana India reported another record daily surge in coronavirus infections Monday to overtake Brazil as the second-worst hit country. The 168,912 cases added in the last 24 hours pushed India’s total to 13.5 million, while Brazil has 13.4 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. India also reported 904 deaths in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may evade the protection provided by Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is very low and the research has not been peer-reviewed. The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Steps have been taken to provide a cash allowance of Rs. 5,000 to Samurdhi recipients and low-income families, says State Minister of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self-Employment and Business Development Shehan Semasinghe. The decision has been taken in view of the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Samurdhi officers have been […]

Courtesy Newin.asia India, April 9 (Quartz) – As India braces for the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, some Indians have come up with a jugaad—the colloquial term for a hack—that might prove to be a menace for the country. On April 1, the government in the western state of Gujarat shut down a couple of […]

By Gabriele Steinhauser in Johannesburg, Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Ryan Dube in Lima, Peru Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Johannesburg, April 8 (Wall Street Journal):  Powered by the U.S. and China, the global economy is set to make a stunning comeback this year from its deepest contraction since the Great Depression, economists say. For many developing […]

Courtesy Adaderana Denmark lineage of COVID-19 has been identified in virus samples collected from 03 persons in the community in Colombo, says Dr Chandima Jeewandara, Director of Allergy, Immunity and Cell Biology Unit of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Sri Lanka has carried out monthly genetic sequencing of the COVID-19 virus variants since the virus […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, April 7 (Reuters) – India’s fight against COVID-19 over the next four weeks will be very, very critical” as its faces a faster second surge in infections, senior government health official Vinod Kumar Paul said on Tuesday. India’s daily infections passed the 100,000 mark for the first time on Monday, data […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is planning to import 6 million more doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine from Russia, says the Department of Government Information. During its meeting held on Monday (April 05), the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal tabled by Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi to order more of Sputnik V jabs to proceed […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 3 (Daily Mirror) – The Serum Institute in India, which manufactures Covishied Astrazeneca vaccines, which was administered in Sri Lanka, has informed the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) that it is presently unable to supply any further doses due to the temporary ban imposed on vaccine exports by the Indian government. The […]

Courtesy Yahoo News GENEVA (Reuters) – Chinese vaccine makers Sinopharm and Sinovac have presented data on their COVID-19 vaccines indicating levels of efficacy that would be compatible with those required by the World Health Organization, the chair of a WHO advisory panel said on Wednesday. The WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) hopes to […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control, Sudarshini Fernandopulle speaking to Ceylon Today stated that Sri Lanka’s inoculation program has been temporarily suspended due to  lack of COVISHIELD Vaccine stocks. When inquired further, Minister Fernandopulle stated that the Ministry of Health is in possession of only 264,000 doses of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chief Epidemiologist Dr Sudath Samaraweera says that the programme to administer the first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been temporarily suspended in Sri Lanka. He stated that the programme to administer the first dose was suspended in order to commence providing the second dose of the AstraZeneca COVISHIELD vaccine.  Speaking at […]