LNP - Australia eases international border restrictions for first time in pandemic
Australia eased its international border restrictions on Monday for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing some of its vaccinated pu...
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LNP - Easing restrictions is a gamble that might backfire: Health authorities
With relaxing of internal border controls and other restrictions, health authorities have urged people to act with a sense of responsibility. Director...
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LNP - SL on alert over new vaccine resistant COVID variant
Sri Lanka is on high alert over a new coronavirus variant named A.30, which can evade Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. State Minister Channa ...
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LNP - EU grants EUR 2 Mn to SL for COVID-19 health response
The European Union (EU) has granted a further EUR 2 million in funding to help Sri Lanka in its efforts to manage the pandemic. The grant, provided by...
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LNP - How arrivals can now complete the health declaration at BIA in 20 seconds
The government yesterday said that the new health declaration system inaugurated at the BIA was one of its kind which would enable passenger to comple...
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LNP - Discussions in making vaccine cards mandatory underway: Health Ministry
The matter with regard to making the vaccination card mandatory when entering public places is being discussed by relevant stakeholders, the Health Mi...
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LNP - COVID situation at National Hospital under control: Health officials
The number of normal and ICU admissions of COVID-19 patients has drastically come down at the Colombo National Hospital and thereby the situation at t...
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LNP - Pfizer vaccine to A/L students islandwide from today
Administering the Pfizer vaccine to students aged between 18 and 19 would take place at their respective schools throughout the country from today, a ...
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LNP - WHO warns Covid pandemic will drag on into 2022
The Covid pandemic will "go on for a year longer than it needs to" because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health O...
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LNP -University students to be given Pfizer vaccine as booster dose
University students fully vaccinated with Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine will be given a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, says the Director-General of ...
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LNP - Sri Lanka’s COVID vaccination figures grow further
Sri Lanka has fully vaccinated 85 percent of its population aged above 20 years, according to Epidemiology Unit’s data. This amounts to 67.2 percent...
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LNP - IMF lowers Sri Lanka’s outlook on persistent pandemic pressures
Cites supply chain issues, higher prices make recovery difficult and uneven Advocates for aggressive vaccination to look past pandemic for durable re...
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LNP - 10-30 % of total infected patients suffer from post-COVID symptoms
Shedding light on post-COVID condition in Sri Lanka and control measures, a medical expert said at least 10 to 30% of total patients infected with COV...
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LNP - COVID vaccine: University students too show reluctance
There is still hesitancy shown by youth in getting COVID-19 vaccination and in particular, the university students have also been hesitant to get them...
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LNP - Adults, women at excess risk for COVID re-infection: Latest research
A latest foreign research highlighted that adults, women, immunocompromised individuals and those with prior hospitalization for COVID-19 are at exces...
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LNP - Dengue stings amid COVID-19; similar symptoms a concern
Amidst the threat of COVID-19 and the consequent lockdown, health authorities have sounded an alert on cases of dengue, which have started to emerge d...
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LNP - Health Ministry deeply concerned about Long-COVID symptoms
In the wake of what was revealed in a recent study on core long-COVID-19 symptoms, the Health ministry is compelled to pay a special attention on the ...
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LNP - Convene ACCD to inoculate Pfizer for 16-19 age group healthy children: GMOA requests Health DG
The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) requested the Health Services Director General to convene the Advisory Committee on Communicable D...
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LNP - A record surgery on kidney stones sans full anaesthesia at Kalutara Teaching Hospital
For the first time in Sri Lanka, the stone that occupied the entire kidney of a patient was removed in a surgery called ‘Mini PCNL (Percutaneous Nep...
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LNP - Nine core long-COVID symptoms identified in a new study
A new study has underlined nine core long-COVID symptoms, occurring 90-180 days after COVID-19 was diagnosed, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, Director of the...
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LNP - A batch of 400,000 Pfizer vaccines flown in
A consignment of 400,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine vials has been flown into the country by Emirates Airways air cargo, the airport duty manager said. H...
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LNP - Virus transmission could still exist though curfew lifted: SLMA
With the country remaining open from tomorrow, the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) said there is still a possibility of high transmission of the ...
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LNP - Health guidelines to be followed from Oct. 1 issued
The Health Ministry today issued a new set of guidelines under two phases to be followed in the month of October once the curfew is lifted from tomorr...
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