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Australia
Pfizer pays $179m for Australian company behind smartphone app developed by scientist of Sri Lankan origin that can diagnose COVID
BRISBANE: An Australian company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening…
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Arts & Entertainment
Sri Lanka baila star Sunil Perera is dead at 68
COLOMBO: In the end, it was only appropriate that Sunil Perera, who had entertained generations of Sri Lankans on the…
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Spotlight
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…
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Latest
Tush Wickramanayaka spearheads campaign to get British government to release supply of AstraZeneca vaccines
COLOMBO: With Sri Lanka’s vaccine rollout tarnished by the delay in the shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines, well known social activist,…
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Diplomatic Dispatch
Sri Lanka Embassy in Doha facilitates the first shipment of 150 oxygen cylinders and pulse oximeters to Sri Lanka
DOHA: The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Doha facilitated the first air shipment of 150 oxygen cylinders and 22 pulse…
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Health
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…
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Asia
COVID-19 responsible for deaths of 98 Sri Lankan expatriates
COLOMBO: The Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka has stated that 98 Sri Lankan expatriates have died due to COVID-19 related…
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