Coronavirus

Health experts today said that those who were infected with the COVID-19 infection, after receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, should wait for six months to get their booster doses. 

Sri Lanka’s Director-General of Health Services issued updated guidelines that need to be followed from the 16th to the 30th of November, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has pledged 50 million pounds ($66.2 million) to the University of Oxford for setting up a research campus that would also house the institute behind the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 shot.

Britain will remove all 11 countries from its COVID-19 travel red list from Wednesday (Dec 15) because there is now community transmission of Omicron, Health Secretary Sajid Javid told parliament.

The vaccination card has been made mandatory for pilgrims to carry while they are engaging in Sri Pada pilgrimage.

The major Chinese manufacturing province of Zhejiang is fighting its first COVID-19 cluster this year, with tens of thousands of citizens in quarantine and virus-hit areas suspending business operations, cutting flights and cancelling events.

Pakistan has confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in the country's most populous city of Karachi, the country's National Institute of Health (NIH) said on Monday.

Britain said on Monday that the Omicron coronavirus variant was spreading at a "phenomenal rate" and now accounted for about 40% of infections in London, so people should get a booster shot because the double-vaccinated are still vulnerable.

People should not have undue fears about the mild COVID-like symptoms experienced after receiving their booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine, says Dr. Malkanthi Galhena, family health specialist.

Israeli researchers said on Saturday they found that a three-dose course of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine provided significant protection against the new omicron variant.