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While stressing the point that a minority of fully vaccinated people could get severe disease, and may even die, the Sri Lanka Med…

The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 184 coronavirus-related deaths for September 06 (yesterday), increas…

The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) this week put forward a series of requests to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to …

A special programme should be introduced to provide Pfizer vaccine to the youth between the age group of 20 to 30 in the Colombo D…

In the wake of the decision taken by Dr Ananda Wijewickrama to resign from the Intercollegiate Technical Committee of the Director…

Considering the strategies adopted in other countries, on the advice of Sri Lankan Paediatricians, Community Health Specialists an…

Another batch of 100,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine reached the country this morning brought by Qatar Airways. The consignme…

The above 60 years population cannot be vaccinated one hundred percent in the country due to numerous reasons, the Health Ministry…

The Health Ministry said today that 85% of the 6,985 Covid-19 deaths that have been reported upto August 13, were among people who…

The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) today charged that large stocks of COVID-19 vaccines were provided for vaccina…

The Government has planned to implement a program to provide indigenous immune strengthening medicines and immune strengthening po…

Key data on the effectiveness of Covid vaccines currently used in Sri Lanka, against new variants, is to be submitted to the relev…

Sri Lanka has today received 2.3 million doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China freighted by two SriLankan Airlines aircraft, the …

The country has reached its worst and highest level in the COVID pandemic, the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) Gen…

Travel restrictions should be further tightened up to 80 to 90 per cent and the imposed restrictions should be implemented perfect…

Under the programme of providing the COVID vaccine for people who are above 60 years of age and above, the government has decided …

State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana says that another one million doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine are scheduled to arri…

The quarantine curfew which has been declared for ten days, should be extended by at least ten more days to successfully curtail t…

In a situation where patients infected with COVID-19 are detected every part of the country with no origin, Deputy Director Genera…

At least 43 per cent of the population has received either single vaccine or both doses as of up to now, Army Commander General Sh…

Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Soumya Swaminathan said vaccination against Covid -19 can prevent new varia…

People over 60 years of age and those with cronic illnesses in the Western Province who have not received the first dose of the Co…

As COVID19 patients has seen a sudden spike across Sri Lanka in recent days, all major hospitals especially in the Western Provinc…

Sri Lanka’s daily COVID-19 cases count could be several times higher than the official figures, says the Vice Chairman of Sri La…

Sri Lanka has today received two million doses of Sinopharm vaccines from China freighted by two SriLankan Airlines aircraft, the …