Sri Lanka

Detailed proposals worked out under the guidance of High Commissioner-designate Milinda Moragoda are now with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Over 750,000 doses of the AstraZeneca will arrive in Sri Lanka today evening from Japan, through the WHO's Covax facility. The government said priority will be given to those who received their first doses.

Sri Lanka on Friday (July 30) rolled out more than 500,000 COVID vaccinations for the second consecutive day, the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals stated.

Another blue Sapphire cluster weighing 80kg has been handed over to the National Gem and Jewellery Authority.

COVID-19 clusters are forming within the health workers with several doctors having being infected with the virus despite being fully vaccinated in recent days.

Order follows discovery that 95% of those infected or who had died of COVID 19 had not been vaccinated

The following are the foreign exchange rates against the Sri Lankan rupee released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Friday (30).

A record 515, 830 COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Sri Lanka yesterday making it the highest number of doses to be provided in a single day in the country. 

The number of coronavirus positive patients detected in Sri Lanka crossed the 304,000 mark as another 2,329 new Covid-19 cases had been detected across the country yesterday (29).

Colombo, July 30 (NewsWire) - The limit on fully vaccinated passengers in airlines travelling to Sri Lanka has been lifted.