Five members of the same family from Chilaw, including a four-month-old infant, have tested positive for COVID-19, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said today.

Sri Lanka is to use anti-influenza drug ‘AVIGAN’ on COVID-19 patients on an experimental basis from next week, a seni

Six Grama Seva divisions of the Marawila Police area were locked down after the confirmation of a coronavir

Prime Minister’s Senior Advisor on Economic Affairs Ajith Nivard Cabraal made a proposal to return approximately 20 percent of the balances amounting to around Rs.500 billion of the Employees Provident Fund, lying to the cr

The Sri Lanka Navy yesterday brought ashore a fisherman who had closely associated with a person infected with the coro

A UNP delegation will meet President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today, party sources said yesterday. UNP Assistant Leader former MP Ravi Karunanayake, MPs Ruwan Wijewardene, and Arjuna Ranatunga will be included

Despite being a second world economy, Sri Lanka is setting a global example by taking swift and impressive response to the global epidemic of COVID-19, a report by the Health Review Global said following a thorough analysis of public health measures

Wholesale goods market in Colombo was opened in order to dispatch essential food items to retail outlets on March 26. Traders are seen buyi

The Health Ministry has urged the public not to hoard up on surgical masks or the N95 masks, saying it was not necessary for people to wear it presently as there was no ‘active community transmission’ of the COVID-19 detected in Sri Lanka

Streets in Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara Districts were largely deserted yesterday as an indefinite curfew was in forc

Keeping the groceries open and providing vouchers for the people is a better option rather than providing packages of e

Former Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera yesterday urged the government to revoke the gazette notification

The Ministry of Education has taken steps to provide all schoolchildren, who are at home during the extended school holidays due to th

WHO says strong link between smoking and corona deaths

Former staff sergeant of the Army, R.M. Sunil Ratnayake, who was sentenced to death over the murder of eight Ta

The government has decided to set up an Air Force camp at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in line with the Air Force camp adjacent to the BIA, at Katunayaka. The responsibility to provide security to international a

Three telephone numbers have been introduced by the government for the general public to inform the authorities on emergency situations such as sickness and disruption of essential services during curfew. They are 119, 0112444480 and 0112444481. In c

The curfew that will be imposed at 12 noon today in eight districts - Colombo, Gampaha, Puttalam, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya, Mannar and Mullaitivu, will be lifted at 6.00 am on Friday and reimpose

Power and Energy Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday urged motorists not to resort to panic buying at fuel stations as the Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminal Ltd (CPSTL) had sufficient stocks

The Committee headed by the Governor of the Central Province Lalith U.Gamage has advised that people should not come to Kandy without any real purpose during this crisis period. Deputy Inspector General of Police N. Ranaweera said that there are 2

Western Province Solid Waste Management Authority Director Nalin Mannaperuma yesterday said that not to dispose the garbage including tissues, gloves and face masks which used in quarantine c

The Elections Commission (EC) yesterday postponed the Parliamentary polls scheduled to be held on April 25th indefinitely considering the uncertain situation prevalent in the country with the spread o

After careful consideration of all aspects, the government has declared a period of work from home for both public and private sectors starting from March 20 to 27, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that the information he recently shared over coronavirus situation in Sri Lanka was received via the Facebook and that he was even ready to go to jail if it w

As a majority of Sri Lankans continue to stay indoors and observe the COVID 19 transmission within the country, discussions are underway to seek the possibility of closing down the Bandaranaike International Airport. With a mass influx of returnees f

The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) said that it had launched an investigation into several statements made by former MPs Rajitha Senaratne and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka resulting in Coronavi

A Police curfew has been imposed in the Puttalam District and Kochchikade in Negombo from 4.30 p.m yesterday until further notice to assist in the measures being taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in that region of the country, the Police said.

Though there has been a notion that COVID-19 virus cannot spread in warm weather and it would spread further in rainy weather, a health expert in Sri Lanka yesterday said it was not possible to co

The Health Ministry, on Tuesday reiterated that the country was not at risk from the Chinese nationals who had recently returned back to Sri Lanka for work, saying no Chinese national was under obs

The Railways Department yesterday decided to limit all train services up to Negombo on the Colombo-Puttalam line from this evening, the General Manager Railways Dilantha Fernando said.