News from 2020

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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By Shabiya Ali AhlamAs Sri Lanka is in the midst of exploring all possible avenues to bounce back from the upheaval set in motion …

A major Chinese city has adopted draconian quarantine measures against the novel coronavirus after a new outbreak was detected the…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday raged about the coverage of Centre for Drugs Control (CDC) Director Robert Redfield’s interv…

Dubai. (Reuters), April 23, 2020 -   Iran will destroy U.S. warships if its security is threatened in the Gulf, the head…

Seven more Covid-19 infected patients have been identified increasing the total number of infected cases to 330, the Health Minist…

A Sri Lankan chef aboard a merchant vessel died due to a heart attack today, the Navy said. The Navy said it assisted to disembark…

Air pollution in Colombo city and its suburbs had dropped by 70%, while air pollution in other areas has been reduced by 50 percen…

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The worker remittance inflows to Sri Lanka this year are projected to decline by 19 percent year-on-year (YoY), driven by the glob…

Sri Lanka’s tourism sector’s post-COVID-19 approach to revive the sector has been conceptualised to be carried out in two stag…

(Tokyo) REUTERS: Oil prices slumped again yesterday, with Brent falling to the lowest since 1999, as the market struggled with a m…

At least 80 per cent of the Covid-19 patients are being treated in government hospitals across India.    On an average, …

(rt.com) 22 Apr, 2020 -   President Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboat…

The Government would bring all culprits who planned, financed and supported the Easter bombing carnage that killed over 270 and wo…