Study by Sri Lankan university finds Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine highly efficient against Delta variant
COLOMBO: Researchers from one of Sri Lanka’s leading universities, the Sri Jayewardenepura University, have found that China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine is highly efficient against the…
Sri Lanka – ‘Forced’ cremation of COVID victims’ bodies must stop: UN rights experts
NEW YORK: In a joint appeal, Special Rapporteurs Ahmed Shaheed, Fernand de Varennes, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule and Tlaleng Mofokeng, said that the practice ran contrary to the beliefs of Muslims…
Sri Lanka takes wide-ranging steps to combat coronavirus as World Health Organisation declares global emergency
COLOMBO, January 2020: With large numbers of Chinese workers employed at construction sites and hundreds of Sri Lankans having returned or planning to return soon…
Discussions underway with China on evacuating Sri Lankans in virus-hit Wuhan
BEIJING, January 2020: The Ministry of Foreign Relations has instructed the Sri Lankan Embassy in Beijing to immediately contact the Sri Lankan students studying in…
Sri Lanka is measles-free, declares World Health Organisation
NEW DELHI, July 2019: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Sri Lanka is measles-free. Announcing this at a meeting of the South-East Asia Regional…
War against mosquitoes saves lives and money in Sri Lanka
NEW YORK, June 2019: A large-scale drive against mosquitoes in Sri Lanka reduced the incidence of dengue fever by more than 50 percent and saved…