Health

IOM Sri Lanka & Switzerland assist COVID-19 repatriation

 IOM Sri Lanka in partnership with the Government of Switzerland assisted the COVID-19 repatriation efforts of the Government of Sri…

4 years ago

COVID මාරයාට සමුදෙන කාලය අතළඟ…?

Hong Kong and Singapore postponed the world’s first quarantine-free travel bubble for two weeks after a surge of new coronavirus…

4 years ago

Coronavirus: How can society thrive post-pandemic?

We don’t yet know the answer – and, in some respects, we don’t even know the right questions to ask.…

4 years ago

Covid-19: World’s top latex glove maker shuts factories

The world's largest maker of latex gloves will shut more than half of its factories after almost 2,500 employees tested…

4 years ago

Covid-19 pandemic: Merkel ‘worried’ about vaccines for poor countries

Germany's chancellor has raised concerns about the world's poorest securing access to Covid-19 vaccines. Angela Merkel was speaking at a…

4 years ago

Coronavirus cannot be eradicated by isolating the community: GMOA

Community-related disease like Coronavirus can never be eradicated by isolating the community, the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) said.   …

4 years ago

FDA approves emergency use for first at-home Covid-19 test kit

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved emergency use for the first Covid-19 test that can be conducted entirely at…

4 years ago

Assistance of private hospitals in Colombo not required yet for treatment

With Colombo turning into a hotspot for COVID-19 infections, health authorities said they had sufficient facilities to treat the surge…

4 years ago

සෞඛ්‍ය නීති කඩන බස් රථ වැටලීම ඇරඹේ..

සෞඛ්‍ය මාර්ගෝපදේශ කඩ කරන බස් රථ අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමේ විශේෂ වැටලීම් අද සිට ආරම්භ කරන බව මගී ප්‍රවාහන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය පවසයි.…

4 years ago

මෙරට සුවය ලැබූ කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් ගණන 11,000 ඉක්මවයි..

මෙරට කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් සංඛ්‍යාව 17,674 දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් තිබේ. ඒ , ඊයේ දිනයේ නව ආසාදිතයින් 382 දෙනෙකු හඳුනා ගැනීමත් සමගයි.…

4 years ago