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16,720 more individuals recovered from COVID-19 bringing the total recoveries in the country to 451,742, the Epidemiology Unit confirmed

72 deaths reported due to COVID-19 within 24-hours, stated the Department of Government Information

Specialist doctors urge the parents and adults not to be deceived by myths and superstitions and get the children vaccinated. The vaccination programme is carried out with the reommendations of the expert committees of the world…

The Examinations Department released the GCE Ordinary Level Examination 2020 results. The result can be viewed by logging on to the Examinations Department website www.doenets.lk

A total of 1,368 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in Sri Lanka, stated the Epidemiology Unit. The total count of positive coronavirus cases found in Sri Lanka currently sits at 510,040.

A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days' time will be the "turning point for humanity", PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations. He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called…

French defence contractor Naval Group is preparing to send Australia a bill after a $66 billion contract was sunk by a secret deal between Canberra, Washington and London to share technology on nuclear-powered submarines and form…

After weeks of internal strife at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency on Wednesday authorized people over 65 who had received Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine to get a booster shot at least six months after their second…

President Biden, declaring the coronavirus an “all-hands-on-deck crisis,” set out ambitious goals on Wednesday for ending the pandemic and urged world leaders, drug companies, philanthropies and nonprofit groups to embrace a target of…

This government gave high assurances to the people that those responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks will be punished but those hopes have been dashed within two years and five months after the government came to power, Janatha…