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Wed, 08 Apr 2020 Today's Paper
8 hours ago - 0 - 91
While the government’s response to COVID-19 may have shielded Sri Lanka from a major loss of life, the imminent large-scale economic fallout will be harder to prevent.
03 Apr 2020 - 0 - 786
Part 1 of this fact check identified the GMOA’s error in calculating the initial trajectory of the virus spread in Sri Lanka relative to Italy.
02 Apr 2020 - 0 - 879
As more patients continue to be diagnosed with COVID-19, strict warnings have been issued for those who are afraid to disclose their travel histories or signs of suspected symptoms.
01 Apr 2020 - 0 - 1864
The world is mourning. Sri Lanka too is in a critical state as two lives were already claimed by the killer coronavirus or COVID-19.
01 Apr 2020 - 0 - 428
As a public servant, I have been asked to work from home and stay at home as much as possible. Last week I worked from home.
31 Mar 2020 - 1 - 5644
Social media has become a busy place following the indefinite curfew period. A mushrooming number of delivery services has come forward to serve customers with relief packages at various rates. While some customers have expressed their gratitude for their quick and efficient service, many services have also received negative reviews for overcharging, delayed deliveries and some
31 Mar 2020 - 4 - 17491
As we come to the end of the ‘official quarantine’ period and begin to relax the ‘lockdown’ within Sri Lanka but keeping the ‘international lockdown’ in place, we need to look at how the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID -19 behaved in other countries. Based on actual case numbers fr
31 Mar 2020 - 0 - 189
The coronavirus pandemic has been global in its reach. But its impact has varied widely. Approaches to its containment have also varied from country to country. Given the varying conditions, each country has had to or will have to, fashion its approach to suit its peculiar conditions so that the spread of the virus is contained while ensuring that the measures taken do not themselves exacerbate the situa
30 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1381
Like so many bad things, COVID-19 or Novel Coronavirus came across as something abstract, unreal, something which can’t happen to you.
30 Mar 2020 - 0 - 348
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has issued a brief guide highlighting legal concerns regarding the Government response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka.
28 Mar 2020 - 4 - 1447
In order to encourage social and physical distancing practices, the government took steps to distribute essential food items to households with effect from March 25. For this, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a taskforce on continuous supply, operation and coordination of services.
24 Mar 2020 - 5 - 1501
Amid 86 people being tested positive at the time this article was penned and 222 others currently undergoing treatment at designated hospitals...
24 Mar 2020 - 0 - 183
I have known Uncle Sarath (1948 - 2020) my entire life. He and Aunty Tania were my parents’ closest friends. Uncle Sarath and my father....
24 Mar 2020 - 1 - 585
The medical profession in Ceylon had by the late 19th century followed patterns set down in most of the European colonies in Asia.
24 Mar 2020 - 0 - 185
Desamanya Dr Roland Silva was a unique personality. I am yet to meet someone who can be compared as a close second to him.
22 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1906
A responsible Government Medical Officer publicly opined that the situation of corona virus of initial stage of Sri Lanka was worse than Italy. This is not correct comparing Italy and Sri Lanka figures.
20 Mar 2020 - 4 - 2609
Dr Leong Hoe Nam, infectious disease specialist at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, answers questions you may have on the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Dr Leong Hoe Nam is an infectious disease specialist practising at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.
20 Mar 2020 - 3 - 503
Is this the reason why many good people die early? March 20 is my fathers birthday.. He would have been 78 had he lived.. He was a wonderful father and a wonderful husband, but most of all he was a wonderful human being.
19 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1014
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected the everyday lives of people, including those of politicians. With public health concerns increasing, questions are being raised about holding national elections amid the coronavirus spread. Although nomination papers have been signed, candidates contesting the upcoming Parliamentary Elections will be hampered in running their campaigns and holding public meetings, until the crisis subsides. While some leaders h
18 Mar 2020 - 2 - 3981
With the discovery of the 34th active Covid-19 positive patient in Sri Lanka, the municipal council of Nuwara Eliya is taking preventive measures and raising awareness seriously. Although the government declared Monday (16) a public holiday, all the essential services including health and other services as well as wholesale and retail shops had been requested to function as per usual.
17 Mar 2020 - 0 - 1003
Filled with brightly coloured balloons and music playing in the background, the hall at the Home of Compassion had an air of festivity and cheerfulness about it. As the residents of the home gathered together, the man of the hour, Sellat
17 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1579
Certainly, 75 years is a long period. It is a triple quarter centenary; more than a Diamond memory; Just a quarter less than a century. It is a well-fit occasion to be commemorat
16 Mar 2020 - 0 - 507
The action-thriller is a genre that was relatively rare in Indian commercial cinema, Bollywood, Kollywood or any other, until the new millennium. Though the 1958 film Madhumathi is based on a murder and its unravelling, it can’t be classified as a thriller (its described as a paranormal romance).
16 Mar 2020 - 0 - 108
As a kidney patient having undergone dialysis over 375 times in private hospitals I noted last year this day passed unnoticed by many. I found no such activities conducted for CKD- Chronic Kidney Disease....
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 143
On March 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. While Italy is currently on lockdown, China’s situation is slowly being controlled.
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 188
Damien was a character well-known for a combination of qualities that intrigued and attracted many. He was a very close friend of other interesting people who were his contemporaries at Peradeniya University in the 1950s and of others who were his mates at the Sri Lanka Administrative Service.
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 520
The Peradeniya University Science Faculty Alumni lost W.M.D. Wijekoon, old boy of Dharmaraja College, who entered university in October 1968.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 1697
A recent a joint research by a leading Dutch based institute, in which a world renowned Sri Lankan scientist too was involved has shown that half of the world’s beaches including Sri Lanka’s would disappear by 2100.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 235
Time and memory are closely intertwined, as it seeps away quite unconsciously, adding meaning to the oscillating moments between past and future. Some of these moments are deemed worthy of notice and recorded as history....
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 138
A team of orthopaedic surgeons from the global humanitarian organisation ‘Steps 2 Walk’ visited Sri Lanka recently. They held workshops for local orthopaedic surgeons and conducted foot and ankle surgeries in the National Hospital, Colombo.
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