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With the country remaining open from tomorrow, the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) said there is still a possibility of high …

The Health Ministry today issued a new set of guidelines under two phases to be followed in the month of October once the curfew i…

While highlighting the diminished enthusiasm shown by the youth in getting their vaccine, Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Samitha Ginige …

A batch of 30,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for vaccinating children above 12 years reached the country this morning flown …

The Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital has requested parents to register their children aged between 12 and 19 years suffering fr…

The Foreign Ministry has informed the Health Ministry that no country has made a specific COVID-19 vaccine compulsory when enterin…

COVID booster jabs will begin to be administered to the relevant groups of people in the near future once the second dose rollout …

Even after recovering from COVID viral infection, several high-risk post COVID complication conditions such as COVID pneumonia cou…

Vaccination for children above 12 years of age, who are diagnosed with chronic diseases, would commence at the Lady Ridgeway Hospi…

Referring to the hesitancy shown by the younger population to receive the COVID vaccine, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corpora…

Authorities call on them to be more responsible and take jabs Many youngsters demanding for Pfizer and Moderna Western countries a…

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that the UN will provide its full supp…

There is a sharp decrease in COVID-19 cases being reported daily and also the number of hospitalization has also vastly gone down,…

In such a situation where the talks on lifting the current lockdown are in the spotlight, the Association of Medical Specialists (…

The committee decision on beginning the COVID-19 vaccination rollout for school children and which grades could be opened first, w…

Another batch of 76,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine reached the country this morning brought by Qatar Airways. The consignmen…

While saying that there is hesitancy among some individuals to get COVID vaccines due to needle phobia, State Minister Channa Jaya…

The responsibility for the breakdown of patient care services at the Narahenpita Army Hospital should be borne by the relevant mil…

Despite a slight decrease in the number of COVID-19 infections and fatalities, the Health Ministry said the situation is not yet f…

Claiming that some people who recover from Covid-19 could experience post-covid symptoms such as cough, breathing difficulties and…

Chairman of Sinopharm Group Liu Jingzhen has expressed his enthusiasm in setting up a vaccine refilling plant in Sri Lanka,the Sri…

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…