It is also different from the strain found from UK and South Africa

There is no exponential growth in cases

Epidemiology Unit says the virus is still not emerging from the community

The UNP new office bearers together with Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe pose for a photo after assuming duties at Sirikotha on January 21, 2021. Pic by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe

UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene handing over letters of acceptance of the new party office bearers to party Leader Ranil Wickr

Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V

Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing Easter Sunday attacks will submit its final report to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on January 31, sources from the Commission informed D

Expediting testing and isolation of patients is the best strategy

Ravi, Navin, Arjuna likely to exit UNP

All institutions involved in containment of the disease would have a meeting today to explore novel measures to arrest the trend

Steps underway to register Pfizer, Sputnik V and AstraZeneca vaccines

The person who was found to have been infected with the new COVID-19 variant is a visiting overseas cricketer who had

Ramanayake will be sent to the Pallansena Quarantine Centre

All places where the COVID-19 infected MPs were staying had been disinfected by now

Sri Lanka has been able to control the spread of COVID-19 more successfully than any other powerful country in t

It is not an easy process to augment the PCR testing capacity and it can’t be done overnight

The Government has held diplomatic level discussions with Russia, India and China with regard to the purchasing of Covid-19 vaccines in addition to the obtaining of vaccines through the COVAX facility, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachch

Sri Lanka’s economy has fared better than many other countries in the globe in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as i

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday arrested Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisin

Action would be taken against those who defy quarantine rules and regulations

Approximately 90,000 people have been ordered to follow quarantine procedures at their residences as of yesterday, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.

Tests conducted yesterday on those leaving Western Province and several other areas

Russian mission in Colombo suggests producing Sputnik V in Sri Lanka

Dancers at welcome ceremony were sans face masks

The World Health Organisation (WHO) assured that a qualified vaccine could be made available for Sri Lanka by Mar

WHO has pledged to provide 20% of Sri Lanka’s population with COVID-19 vaccine once developed

While isolation of several areas in Colombo have been removed from this morning, a total of 150 COVID-19 cases were identified from Avissawella alone on Saturday, from the 235 cases that were reported in the Colom

There was no intention to impose a curfew covering the entire country during the festive season, the National Operati

The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) is now in touch with the relevant stakeholders for the registration of effective vaccines against COVID-19, a Minister said yesterday.

The government is to expedite the introduction of the Covid vaccine to Sri Lanka. Principal Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga