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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…

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…