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 ...

Reputable news organizations such as Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and South African news website News24 debunked the ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank left its key policy rates steady on Thursday amid the renewed challenges posed by the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic and said it remains committed ...

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of their Twenty20 series in Australia, the country's cricket board said on Tuesday. Mendis was named in the ...

Rights activists have called for accountability from Sri Lankan authorities over the forced cremation of Muslim bodies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chirantha Amarasinghe, a Catholic activist, filed a ...

Sri Lanka, May 30 -- The Government has stepped up its testing and surveillance efforts in the country in response to growing global concerns surrounding a newly emerging COVID-19 variant. The ...