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17 Mar 2021 - 2 - 1335
China said on Monday it will simplify visa applications for foreign nationals who have been inoculated with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, its latest small step towards normalising international travel.
17 Mar 2021 - 2 - 1498
Though there was a drop in detection of new COVID-19 cases, Chief of Defence Staff and Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said that there are still a few patients being reported from clusters in Kandy, Morawaka and Katunayake areas
17 Mar 2021 - 3 - 5927
Blood and pathology tests needed to be carried out to determine whether the sudden drop in the platelets of a dead hotel worker, who was administered with COVID-19 vaccine was due to a complication caused by the vaccine, Assistant Judicial Medical Officer of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Galle, Samadhi Dandeniya Arachchi, who conducted the autopsy on the dead, said.
16 Mar 2021 - 0 - 669
Two more individuals succumbed to COVID-19 today bringing the total number of COVID deaths in the country to 534, the Government Information Department said.
16 Mar 2021 - 0 - 1218
A total of 83 Sri Lankan expatriates were among the 331 persons who were tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said.
15 Mar 2021 - 5 - 3960
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has announced that senior citizens over the age of 60 who are residing within the Colombo city limits can reserve a time online to receive COVISHIELD vaccine.
13 Mar 2021 - 2 - 1168
One COVID-19 death was reported today increasing the death toll to 526, the Government Information Department said.
13 Mar 2021 - 2 - 11186
Public health guidelines to be adopted by Lankans or foreign nationals who are residing in Sri Lanka and undertaking an important state visit/ official visit/ business visit under biosafety travel bubble were issued by the Health Ministry.
12 Mar 2021 - 0 - 1930
Fourty-three more workers at an apperal factory at Katunayake Free Trade Zone have tested positive for COVID-19 today, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of Covid-19 Outbreak said.
12 Mar 2021 - 8 - 6232
The government of Sri Lanka is looking to amend the quarantine rules for its citizens entering the country from the UAE.
12 Mar 2021 - 8 - 2496
A South African variant of COVID-19 known as B.1.351 has been detected from a patient in a quarantine center in Sri Lanka for the first time, Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Sri Jayewardenepura University, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara said.
11 Mar 2021 - 8 - 3236
Not increasing PCR tests and conducting COVID-19 surveillance systems might cause more spreading in society and will result in rapid deterioration of the present situation and could lead to instant boom in COVID-19 infections, Sri Lanka Association of Government Medical Laboratory Technologists Ravi Kumudesh said.
11 Mar 2021 - 3 - 1894
The second consignment of 500,000 COVISHIELD vaccines from the Serum Institute of India is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka within the next two weeks, Principal Advisor to the President and the Chief of the Presidential Task Force on the Procurement of COVID Vaccine, Lalith Weeratunga said today.
09 Mar 2021 - 10 - 4158
It will take at least 14 to 21 days for the immune system to respond to the COVID-19 vaccine, Prof. Neelika Malavige of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura said.
08 Mar 2021 - 6 - 1834
A total of 31 corpses of COVID-19 victims have been so far buried in the Ottamavadi area, Batticaloa, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said.
08 Mar 2021 - 8 - 3725
The research carried out on blood samples of those who have been administered with the vaccine against COVID-19 have so far shown positive results, Prof. Neelika Malavige of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura said today.
08 Mar 2021 - 7 - 5583
An e-channeling system would be introduced enabling the public to book time and date to get Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 in the Colombo Municipality area in the future, Mayoress of Colombo Rosy Senanayake said.
08 Mar 2021 - 0 - 1213
A total number of 56 COVID-19 positive candidates have been identified during the nine days of continuing the GCE Ordinary Level (O/L), Education Minister G.L Pieris said.
08 Mar 2021 - 9 - 2705
Lesser than 10,000 PCR tests have been conducted in the country daily within last three days, according to the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).
07 Mar 2021 - 5 - 5989
Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
07 Mar 2021 - 4 - 1476
Sri Lanka has covered vaccination of almost all people above 30 years of age in areas that were considered COVID-19 hotspots with potentialily to generate active clusters, a State Minister said today.
06 Mar 2021 - 6 - 3049
A 40-year old employee attached to the Colombo Municipal Council Medical Officer of Health’s office was arrested for collecting money to give Covid vaccine.
05 Mar 2021 - 1 - 1053
Four more persons succumbed to COVID-19 increasing the death toll to 493, the Government Information Department said.
05 Mar 2021 - 10 - 4948
The probe and the postmortem conducted into the two deaths that were reported following COVISHIELD vaccination, have revealed that the cause for deaths was not attributed to the vaccine and it had no links to it, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said.
05 Mar 2021 - 14 - 2913
The remains of nine COVID-19 victims were buried in Oddamavadi, Batticaloa within today commencing the process of burying COVID-19 victims, Army Commander Gen. Shavendra Silva said.
05 Mar 2021 - 11 - 3388
The COVID-19 vaccines that are to be received on Sunday, March 7, under the COVAX programme of the World Health Organization would be administered to persons above 60 living in high risk areas, the Health Ministry said.
05 Mar 2021 - 4 - 1614
The cancer ward of the Badulla General Hospital has been closed after 29 persons including a doctor contracted COVID-19 virus.
04 Mar 2021 - 2 - 1144
The COVID-19 death toll in Sri Lanka climbed to 489 with five more deaths being confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services, the Government Information Department said.
04 Mar 2021 - 29 - 3827
Scientific surveys have found out the oxygen percentage in the atmosphere of the Colombo city is gradually declining in proportion to its population, the Ministry of Environment said.
04 Mar 2021 - 6 - 2119
Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda said, the Iranativu area is not a suitable place to bury the bodies of Muslim COVID-19 victims and requested the President and the Premier to consider alternative areas.
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