As It Happens : Save people from the Pandemic: Former Prime Minister

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Securing the Astra Zeneca booster dose among current priorities

Advice from the World Health Organisation(WHO) is to take the second dose of the vaccine as soon as possible after 12 weeks. Opitimum immunity from the first dose lasts for 12 weeks....Continued

| May 14, 2021
Current Affairs

Electronic filing system for AG

With support from the United States, the Attorney General’s Department inaugurated a state-of-the-art training center and launched an electronic system to track cases and legal files.  These tools will strengthen the ability....Continued

| May 14, 2021
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Country’s Covid situation is grave

More than one thousand Covid positive patients are at home without hospital beds and ambulances to transport them to hospital as Sri Lanka’s Covid crisis worsens.  The President of the Public Health....Continued

| May 15, 2021
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Proceed with caution: Is Sri Lanka’s Approach to Import Substitution Sensible? – A Pathfinder Perspective

In the immediate aftermath of the onset of the Covid19 pandemic and the unprecedented health and economic crises it unleashed, there was a widespread backlash in sentiment against globalisation and open economic....Continued

| Apr 11, 2021

Cover Story

Securing the Astra Zeneca booster dose among current priorities

Current Affairs

Electronic filing system for AG

Columns

Country’s Covid situation is grave

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Proceed with caution: Is Sri Lanka’s Approach to Import Substitution Sensible? –...

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