Senior medical experts yesterday warned the public against the use of Ivermectin tablets which are being prescribed by some health consultants to prevent or fight the COVID-19 virus

A company registered with the Board of Investment (BOI) was among a number of institutions found to be hoarding sugar yesterday, Daily Mirror learns.

While claiming that the Covid pandemic could not be overcome by locking down the country, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said yesterday what was important was the people’s cooperation and their adherence to health pr

The first order for the first ever project to produce coffins made out of cardboard by Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council, member Priyantha Sahabandu said.

A total of 29,900 metric tons of hoarded sugar found in warehouses was confiscated by the government following the investigations and operations carried out today, Commissioner General of Essential Services, Major General N.D.S.P. Niwunhella said.

A total of 215 more COVID-19 related deaths that occurred yesterday (31) were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today pushing the death toll to 9,400.

Claiming that the country is facing repercussions of the arbitrary and illogical decision to change the National Vaccine programme to vaccinate people over 60-years of age, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today posed ten questions to the Presiden

State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle said that it is her personal opinion that the country should be closed for another week or two for the control of Covid 19.

Opposition political parties today came out against the imposing of emergency and urged the government to reverse the decision.

Claiming that the new Covid variant detected in South Africa could enter Sri Lanka at any time, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said today that there was no mechanism even elsewhere in the world to prevent any of the va

Sri Lanka kabaddi player Anwar Saheed Baba of Sri Lanka Navy has been bought for Indian Rupees 1 million by one of the franchises of the Indian Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) for the first time.

An ancient dagoba ’Kuda Sithulpawwa’ in the historic sacred area of Hambanthota District was broken into by a group of treasure hunters last night (31), Archaeology Department Director General Prof. Anura Manatunga said.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched an investigation into the incident in which a teenage couple were involved in a pornographic video at the Pahanthudawa waterfall in Balangoda, which is now widely circulated on social media.

Three-judge bench appointed for the Easter Sunday attack trialA three-Bench trial-at-Bar has been appointed by Chief Justice to hear the case filed against 25 suspects in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attacks.

The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as ’’Mu’’, which was first identified in Colombia in January.

A total of 1,136,780 people have been vaccinated within two days with over half a million people receiving their vaccines for the second consecutive day yesterday.

For more than a week now, children in some districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been waking up with a high fever and drenched in sweat.

Cutting down state expenditure and distribution of essential food items under emergency laws will not help the current financial crisis, an SJB MP said yesterday.

The Government remains hopeful that the current number of Covid cases and fatalities will drop in the days to come due to the steps under implementation, a Spokesman said.

Former Western Province Governor Azath Salley was yesterday ordered to be further remanded till September 14 by Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court over controversial remarks he made detrimental to ethnic-religious harmony in the country.

New revenue-generating programs should be formulated through transport services to rebuild the economy of the country, which has collapsed due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Transport Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said.

The Covid-19 death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 9,000 mark today with 194 more deaths being reported today.

The Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians has requested the authorities to take steps to provide Covid-19 vaccine to children above 12 years of age who have chronic diseases, a medical specialist said today.

Statistics on daily Covid cases had to be updated repeatedly as there was a delay in reporting data on positive cases that were identified through Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) performed on field and in private sector hospitals, Deputy Director General

The wife and only son of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) attached to the IGP’s Secretariat, has died due to the COVID-19.

For the first time in the history of the country, twin baby elephants were born at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage today.

An ongoing National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the seizure of 300 kg heroin, five AK-47 rifles and 1,000 live rounds of 9mm ammunition off the coast of Vizhinjam near Thiruvananthapuram has led to speculation that an international drug run

Sri Lankan Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez has been questioned by India’s Enforcement Directorate as a witness to a money-laundering racket, according to several media reports.

Some 5,858 Covid patients were treated in 13 Ayurvedic Hospitals while 4,720 of them have fully recovered by now, State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural and Ayurvedic Hospitals Development and Community Health Sisira Jayakody said.

The Government has planned to implement a program to provide indigenous immune strengthening medicines and immune strengthening porridge to all families in the country with the aim of controlling the current Covid 19 pandemic.