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 last week began inoculating it’s frontline health workers, military troops and police officers against COVID-19 amid warnings that the sector faces a collapse with a number of health staff ...

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 ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Even as the pandemic waned, hospital overcrowding was responsible for one in five COVID-19 deaths, highlighting ...

(Reuters) - Sri Lanka suffered a blow ahead of the second test against Australia when three more players were ruled out on Thursday after contracting COVID-19. Sri Lanka are trailing 1-0 in the ...