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Provincial Councils and Local Government State Minister Roshan Ranasinghe today instructed the Ministry Secretary to reconstruct around 239 crematoriums belonging to Local Government bodies in order to cremate the remains of COVID-19…

Inter-provincial public transport will be stopped with effect from midnight today, announced the Head of National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak Army Commander General Shavendra Silva. Those in the banking,…

Four wards at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) in Borella have now been reserved for the treatment of COVID-19-infected children, Hospital sources said. State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof.…

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed the health officials to pay special attention to those who are above the age of 60 and are suffering from chronic non-communicable diseases. According to the investigations conducted into the…

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

Army personnel attached to the mobile vaccination fleet administering the COVID-19 vaccine to an elderly person at her residence in Wellawatte yesterday. Picture by Rukmal Gamage

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake yesterday said that the Government should at least now invite all members of Parliament irrespective of their parties to discuss the measures to be taken to arrest the…

United National Party (UNP) Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene said he hopes that the Government will consider the 21 proposals submitted by his party as solutions, in the face of the situation where every sector of the country has…

The actual data on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country seems to have been altered, Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) media spokesman Mohamed Muzammil told yesterday (13) morning. Addressing a press brief Muzammil…

Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Dr. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith charged that the Government has a secret deal with those responsible for their failure to prevent the Easter Sunday Terror Attacks for political gain and their own…