Acting Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said that the COVID-19 spread in the country from Minuwangoa cluster has declined. He said that the situation would be controlled in the coming few days. However, it will take a long time to come back to normalcy, he said.He expected the cases found in Gampaha district would gradually decline.
Breast cancer and Cervical cancer are the most common types of cancer among women in Sri Lanka. Following breast surgery, women are reluctant to move their arm due to pain and also being frightened that the surgical site will be subject to trauma. Ann Selle of the Botany Bay Zonta Club in Australia developed and pioneered the Post Surgery Breast Cushion. The Zonta Breast Care Cushion (shown in
Sri Lanka government has so far spent about Rs. 70 billion for tracing contacts, quarantine, pilot tests and welfare, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mahinda Rajapaksa said in the parliament at the Second Reading and the Committee Stage Debate on the Appropriation Bill 2020.Sri Lanka has increased the number of hospital capacity treating the COVID-19 patients to 17 and the number of
International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today that former Sri Lanka paceman Nuwan Zoysa had been found guilty of match-fixing by an independent anti-corruption tribunal. Accordingly, he would be sanctioned, ICC said. Nuwan Zoysa was provisionally suspended in October 2018 and charged with three offences under the ICC's anti-corruption code, including "being party to an agreement or effort ...
Amnesty International stated issuing a statement on killing of prisoners in Sri Lanka that prison authorities should ensure an end to the use of unlawful and excessive force against prisoners agitating against their detention conditions during the outbreak of COVID-19 within prisons. "Ensure that force is only ever used against prisoners where it is strictly necessary and proportionate to a
"Develop a national mechanism to engage all sectors with knowledge and scattered in the society with to face the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka", demanded epidemiologist Dr. Nihal Abesinghe, secretary of National Professional's Organization of National People's Power (NPP). "There is the possibility of the creation of similar clusters within a coming couple of years. Therefore, we must maintain ...
Army Commander of Sri Lanka Lt. Gen. Shavendra de Silva said that the persons who are in quarantine in star class hotels for more than two weeks after returning from foreign countries will be sent for home quarantine.Some of these persons including Minister Vidura Wickramanayaka's sister Thushara Wickramanayaka, a doctor from UK, complained publicity via social media that they are kept in
A diving team attached to the Eastern Naval Command of Sri Lanka Navy conducted a programme to clear plastic and polythene collected on the sea bed, covering the Trincomalee sea area on 02nd November 2020. The cover photo released by Navy shows a diver collecting plastic and polythene waste. Sri Lanka was ranked among the top five marine plastic polluters of the world by earthday.org in 2019 with
Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that 98 Sri Lankan expatriates had died so far in foreign countries.The majority of deaths have occurred in middle east countries. Saudi Arabia - 36Kuwait - 21UAE - 10Qatar - 06Britain -05United States - 04Canada - 04Bahrain - 02Jordan - 02Germany - 02Italy -02Israel - 01
A research team led by Prof. Neelika Malavige of Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences of Sri Jayawardanepura University has reported to the Ministry of Health that the type of coronavirus spreading in the second wave of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka is different from the virus spread in the first wave in the country.A team led by the same professor identified the type A virus in Sri
Chief of Sri Lanka National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) Army Commander Shavendra Silva said that Maradana, Fort, Pettah, Slave Island and Dam Street police divisions in Colombo city would be isolated since 5 a.m. Monday, 16 November. Seventeen police areas in Colombo district are now isolated. The other areas are Mattakkuliya, Modara, Bloemandahl, Kotahena,
Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists says that the publicity given in the media on the connection between the violent and aggressive behaviour of prisoners and the abuse of the drugs used in psychiatric practice has no rational basis. "The drugs used in psychiatric practice in Sri Lanka are also used all over the world and these drugs are brought under the ...
Sri Lankan civil society is silently but strongly marking their protest against the government's inhuman forcible cremation of a 20-day old baby against the wishes of the parents. For about two weeks, small groups of civil society activists wearing masks and keeping social distances silently tie white handkerchiefs on the iron wall of the general cemetery of Colombo 08 where the babies body was ...
Arch Sinhala nationalist politician, former naval officer Sarath Weerasekara is slated to be promoted as the cabinet Minister of Public Security, Sri Lanka government sources speculate. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, RSP, VSV, USP, MP is current State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government. Under an extraordinary Gazette notification dated November 20, President Gotabaya
Sri Lanka Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) complained to the Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi and Army Commander Shavendra Silva regarding the death threat against the head of Sampathnuwara District Hospital by a senior Army officer.According to the letter dated 28 October 2020, sent to the Minister of Health, Brigadier K.K.S. Parakum of Mechanized Infantry Regiment had
Sri Lanka major opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) MP Hesha Vithanage said that the government has dropped the responsibility of control the second wave of COVID-19. He said that the government leaders and the officials are making contradictory statements without working as a team. Addressing a press briefing held in the office of the Opposition Leader, he accused that the Brandix company
Sri Lanka major opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) MP Dr. Harsha de Silva said that appointing government MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa the Chairman of the parliamentary Committee of Public Finance was against checks and balances. He said that the appointment had been done after suspending the Standing Order that the Chairman must be from the Opposition. "I registered our strong protest. ...
A wrong message by Sri Lanka Railway communicated by media caused a loss to Panadura railway station and the passengers who use the busy railway station.A press statement by Sri Lanka Railway wrongly included Panadura and Pinwatta railway stations on the coastal lines into the list of railway stations in isolated areas at which the trains would not stop. However, no media questioned why Panadura
The Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka and the Voice for Democracy in Sri Lanka Collective President-elect Joe Biden, and Senator Kamala Harris as Vice President-elect, to revive the 2016 deal with Australia and give the refugees languishing in offshore detention centres an opportunity to start their life anew.Most of them have been languishing in offshore detention centres for