by Norman Palihawadane A 62-year-old woman who was receiving treatment at the Jaffna Hospital had died of Covid-19, sources there said yesterday. The woman, a resident of Arali, Jaffna,...
By Uditha Devapriya Though I am not in complete agreement with Jathika Chintanaya –both the ideology and its ideologues – I do recognise that, at a...
The Ministry of Helath (MoH) yesterday (26) said that though the new strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus, which caused the coronavirus pandemic, had been detected in dozens...
WHO MEDIA ADVISORY Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOI) from the parent lineage...
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged his government “got some things wrong” in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as he gave evidence at...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Beijing for more information on an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia in northern China that appears mostly to be affecting...
The second batch of KOICA Volunteers arrived in Sri Lanka, on Tuesday (26), as a part of the KOICA World Friends Korea Programme (WFK) after it...
By Zinara Rathnayake “Those who know, know,” Sudath Fernando tells me, cutting a tender, young thambili at his makeshift kiosk on Galle Road in Colombo. Sudath...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Brain drain is the worst manifestation of the country’s economic crisis, Freedom People’s Congress (FPC) member and MP, Prof. G.L Peiris, said on...
By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta The IMF in 2020 told nations around the world that they should maintain a budget deficit to tackle the effects of COVID-19,...