On April 20, a 76-year-old man from Neerveli village, in northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna district, died after he was found to be infected with COVID-19 at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital. The bodies of COVID ...

In the last week of December, three COVID-19 deaths were reported in Sri Lanka, raising serious concerns of a renewed surge in COVID-19 pandemic. On December 24, a 65-year-old man died of pneumonia in ...

Sri Lanka’s health minister tested positive Friday for coronavirus after she drank and endorsed a sorcerer’s elixir claimed to ward off the disease. A health ministry spokesperson said that Pavithra ...

Sri Lankan army soldiers man a checkpoint where screening of body temperature is carried out, during a curfew imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 1, 2020. Credit: ...

Sri Lankan health workers transport the dead body of a person to test for COVID-19 before handing over them to families in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. “Everything changed around ...

Srilanka, June 12 -- Health authorities have confirmed that two individuals have died due to complications from the new COVID-19 variant currently spreading across Sri Lanka, according to Prof.

Srilanka, June 11 -- The Ministry of Health and Mass Media has assured the public that there is no immediate threat of a new COVID-19 variant spreading in Sri Lanka and urged against unnecessary panic ...

COLOMBO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards at a Sri Lankan prison, officials said on Monday, as authorities tried to quell a ...

File photo of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy playing cricket at YS Rajareddy ACA Cricket Stadium, in Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh July 9. (ANI photo) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri ...