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Wed, 08 Apr 2020 Today's Paper
07 Apr 2020 - 14 - 13824
Six Chair Professors of Medicine (and Specialist Physicians) in Sri Lanka have expressed their opinion on an exit strategy from the current COVID-19 lockdown in Sri Lanka, recommending the current level of restriction should continue for now and be reviewed after the New Year among others.
06 Apr 2020 - 8 - 13385
The COVID-19 pandemic may not spiral out of control in countries such as Sri Lanka due to its high temperature and high humidity levels as it has been noticed that the pandemic is causing a wider spread in low temperature countries, independent local researcher, Huzefa Akbarally said.
05 Apr 2020 - 4 - 6670
The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) today urged the health authorities to speed up the COVID-19 testing of some 42,000 personnel who have been in contact with over 160 patients tested positive for the virus in the country.
05 Apr 2020 - 2 - 5956
The curfew imposed in all other districts except Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Puttalam, Kandy and Jaffna will be lifted at 6 am tomorrow (6) and will be re-imposed at 2 pm on the same day, the President’s Media Division said today.
04 Apr 2020 - 5 - 5633
Reports circulating on social media of a complete lockdown enforced from April 10 to 15 where food supply and delivery would be suspended are completely false, Police spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne said.
04 Apr 2020 - 5 - 8754
A fifth person died from COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health said.
03 Apr 2020 - 0 - 3325
Eight people tested positive for COVID-19 so far today bringing the total cases in Sri Lanka to 159, the Health Ministry said.
01 Apr 2020 - 8 - 22576
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has proposed ten steps ’’Hammer and Dance Theory’’ to control COVID-19 Outbreak in Sri Lanka. “All possible aggressive actions should be implemented immediately to control COVID-19,” it said.
31 Mar 2020 - 1 - 4981
Another 11 COVID-19 infected patients were reported in Sri Lanka as at 7.30 pm today, increasing the total number of cases to 143, the Health Ministry said.
27 Mar 2020 - 54 - 44745
Health Minister Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi today expressed her utmost disappointment and anger when the Police and Health authorities detected a 67-year-old COVID 19 infected individual who had dodged quarantine for more than a week and suspected of having infected over 50 other Sri Lankans in the last few days.
27 Mar 2020 - 7 - 5748
A Sri Lankan man living in Switzerland has died from COVID-19 virus on March 25, the Foreign Relations Ministry said.
26 Mar 2020 - 6 - 11105
The government has identified the period till April 10 , 2020 as a high risk period for the spread of coronavirus and therefore the curfew situation in the western province will continue, a minister said.
26 Mar 2020 - 2 - 2014
Four more Sri Lankan patients who were infected with COVID-19 were completely recovered and discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) today, Hospital sources said.
25 Mar 2020 - 56 - 27022
The office of a popular retail website- Kapruka.com- based in Colombo was seized by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) today for selling goods for exorbitant prices.
25 Mar 2020 - 7 - 3615
The second Sri Lankan COVID-19 infected patient completely recovered and has been discharged from the IDH, Angoda today, hospital sources said today.
24 Mar 2020 - 12 - 9889
Sri Lanka Police department has sought public support to identify at least 12 persons including infants who failed to undergo quarantine process, on their arrival from Italy recently.
23 Mar 2020 - 4 - 4564
Five more patients have been tested positive for the virus since yesterday (22) in Sri Lanka, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 86, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi said.
22 Mar 2020 - 9 - 6746
To prevent the imported new cases of Coronavirus in the country, the Government has decided to indefinitely extend the closure of the arrival terminal at the Airport.
20 Mar 2020 - 16 - 14273
An island-wide curfew will be imposed from 6 pm today (20) until 6 am on Monday (23), the President’s Office announced.
19 Mar 2020 - 1 - 6143
Police curfew has been imposed in the Wattala and Ja-Ela areas from today 10.00 pm until further notice, police said. They said the curfew was imposed in line with the measures which are being taken to prevent the COVID-19 spread.
19 Mar 2020 - 4 - 4256
The Central Bank (CB) today directed all banks to suspend facilitating importation of all types of motor vehicles for three months with immediate effect.
19 Mar 2020 - 0 - 6361
Seven more persons tested positive for COVID-19 today bringing the toll of the positive cases to 59, Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe said.
19 Mar 2020 - 3 - 3955
The Elections Commission (EC) today postponed the Parliamentary polls scheduled to be held on April 25th indefinitely considering the uncertain situation prevalent in the country with the spread of COVID 19, viral infection.
18 Mar 2020 - 23 - 6622
Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka today 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 would help stop the spreading of COVID-19.
16 Mar 2020 - 0 - 10041
A First Officer of SriLankan Airlines tested positive for Coronavirus and some of the staff members asked to undergo self-quarantine process, SriLankan Airlines said.
14 Mar 2020 - 2 - 6571
Two more females aged 56-year-old returnee from Italy and 17-year-old girl, a relative of an earlier patient were tested positive for Coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases reported from Sri Lanka to 10.
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 2027
A 42-year-old male, who had returned from Italy and was at the quarantine centre at Kandakadu, has been tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total infected patients to 8, Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said. This patient is currently receiving treatment at Polonnaruwa Hospital.
13 Mar 2020 - 6 - 10095
Three more suspected coronovirus Sri Lankans have been now tested positive, bringing the total of confirmed patients to five, Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe said.
08 Mar 2020 - 9 - 8297
Two teams of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials are searching to arrest former MP Ravi Karunanayake and eight others over the Central Bank bond scam, Police Spokesman SP Jaliya Senarathna said today.
07 Mar 2020 - 6 - 7539
Lulu Group International Chairman and Managing Director, UAE based Indian billionaire, Yusuff Ali has postponed this month’s visit to Sri Lanka to discuss millions of dollars worth of investments with the government amid fears of the global coronavirus threat, the Daily Mirror learns.
07 Apr 2020
