News from 2020

The United States now has more than one million coronavirus cases across the country - accounting for a third of the global tally …

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Thundershowers with severe lightning have been forecast by the Meteorological Department in several provinces across Sri Lanka t…

A total number of 584 Covid-19 infected patients have been identified in Sri Lanka, the health ministry said.Fifty-nine (59) new c…

A total of 180 Navy personnel attached to the Welisara Navy Camp had tested positive for COVID-19 so far, Army Commander Shavendra…

A total of 44 have tested positive for COVID-19 today increasing the total number of cases to 567, Director General of Health Serv…

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As COVID-19 is altering almost everything including how people shop for their day-to-day needs, some chief executives expect such …

(Dhaka) AFP: Hundreds of Bangladesh’s garment factories defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown to reopen on Sunday, raising fe…

Major multi-discipline events in Asia such as South Asian Games (SAG), South East Asian Games (SEA) and the 2022 Asian Games are u…

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday claimed New Zealand had scored a significant victory against the spread of the coronavirus…

DHAKA AFP April27, 2020 - A top UN official has urged Bangladesh to let two stranded boatloads of starving Rohingya Muslims land a…

CAIRO AFP April27, 2020 - The Arab League said Monday it will convene an urgent virtual meeting this week to discuss how to g…

Twenty more Covid-19 infected patients were identified increasing the total cases in Sri Lanka to 505, the Health Ministry said.Ac…

The Ministry of Health has sought 1000 body bags from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to dispose bodies during…

An island-wide curfew would be imposed tomorrow in order to facilitate officers of the security forces who are on leave to report …

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From left: Dr. Sunil De Alwis - Additional Secretary (Medical Services) Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services, Bhadra…

By Shabiya Ali AhlamThe local construction sector is set to slump further with its pleas to the government to release due payments…

China has shut downs gyms and swimming pools in Beijing amid fears the country is vulnerable to a second wave of coronavirus. …

US, (Daily Mail), 26 April 2020 - President Donald Trump has declared that the White House news conferences were ‘not worth the …

Sri Lankan Missions abroad seek to re-position Sri Lanka’s exports to meet market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 crisis,…

Five more patients had tested positive for COVID-19 today increasing the number of cases to 373 in the country, the Health Ministr…

Sri Lanka's Army Chief, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, yesterday said that there had been no sporadic cases of the COVID-19 i…

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