India celebrated the milestone of administering one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses on Thursday, with the government promoting the achievement in song and video even as a recent drop in inoculations worries healthcare providers.

The Ministry of Health says that Sri Lanka’s entire population over the age of 30 have been inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the coronavirus pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need.

Sri Lanka’s health authorities yesterday warned that they had gone on alert over the mutated version of the Delta variant

It had been conducted by a group of virologists from Sri Lanka and the University of Oxford to determine the kinetics and persistence of immune responses following the Sinopharm/BBIBP-CorV

People who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 can expect to become reinfected within one or two years, unless they take precautions such as getting vaccinated and wearing masks.

The country will have to keep under certain restrictions until the month of December this year in order to curb people's unnecessary movement, Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardane said.

Mumbai did not record any deaths due to Covid-19 in 24 hours for the first time since the pandemic began in March last year.

Melbourne, which has spent more time under COVID-19 lockdowns than any other city in the world, is set to lift its stay-at-home orders this week, officials said on Sunday (Oct 17). 

Covid-19 deaths and cases update in Sri Lanka.

A squadron of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet which included the Corvette ‘Gremyashchy’ and submarines ‘B – 603’ and ‘B – 274’ arrived at the Colombo harbour. (October 16).

There is always the possibility of new COVID-19 variants entering into the country, Director General of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardane said.