AstraZeneca Singapore, the regional representative for the AstraZeneca vaccine, has written to the Chairman of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation of numerous traders offering the vaccine to the government of Sri Lanka.
AstraZeneca has said that if any trader or company...
• People off the coast of Colombo North and Negombo asked to refrain from touching any object
• Indian citizens in Sri Lanka alerted over the possible dangers
People in the coastal areas from Colombo to Negombo advised to refrain from touching...
A man who came to buy essential food provisions from a supermarket, tagging along with him a wheelbarrow, was arrested by the Police.
He was seen on the road this morning when travel restrictions were relaxed.
Mohamed Ajwad Mohomed Rimsan became...
India promptly responded to an emergency request by Sri Lanka Navy and to douse the fire on MV X Press Pearl off Colombo on 25 May 2021.The Indian High Commission states
India has deployed Vessels Vaibhav, Vajra and Samudra Prehari...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has requested licensed Commercial Banks to grant relief to affected businesses and individuals given the outbreak of the third wave of Covid 19.
The Central Bank in a circular states that these concessions are...
All crew members, 25 in number, of the Mv X-press Pearl that caught fire a few days ago have been rescued by the Navy.
However, two crew members injured following an explosion onboard the vessel admitted to the Colombo National...
Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has made a passionate appeal to three European countries to provide some of the COVID-19 vaccines they have in excess for the Sri Lankan people.
The Former Speaker has requested from Switzerland, France and Germany to...
A large crowd thronged outside the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, demanding the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. They alleged that the second dose of the vaccine is being administered to a selected crowd inside the hospital.
At least twenty five provincial hospitals will be getting High Dependency Units (HDU’s) equipped with wall Oxygen devices to treat critically ill Covid patients.
The government will also set up 15 oxygen generator machines in 15 identified remote hospitals to...
The government plans to vaccinate 60 % - 70% of the population by the end of this year.
Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal tabled by the Minister of Health to take the necessary steps to purchase 14...
Puttlam Police has arrested three persons in connection with the death of Puttlam UC Chairman K. A Baiz.
Mr Baiz died due to a road accident when he fell off his double cab. He was seated in the rear end...
The government yesterday denied claims that the ‘black fungus’ known as Mucormycosis was detected in Sri Lanka.
Health Ministry sources said that claims that a person who tested positive for the coronavirus in Ampara had contracted black fungus, was fake...
