Tag: Health

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been urged to declare a two-week lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

A big spurt in cases of mucormycosis, or black fungus, among those infected with or recovered from Covid-19 in hospitals across India, has added to the medical community’s woes.

Sri Lanka, which defeated terrorism, with a unique mix of firmness and compassion, has the spiritual and material wherewithal to defeat the pandemic too

One of the many persistent falsehoods spread on social media about the vaccines for COVID-19 is that they cause infertility.

More than 63 percent of the Sri Lankan population can be comprehensively vaccinated before the end of this year, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Parliament today (May 04).

The public cannot choose the Coronavirus vaccine they want and instead must go with what is given to them, State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control, Sudarshini Fernandopulle told

The Astra Zeneca vaccines which has already been administered to over 900,000 people in the Western Province including frontline and health workers, are responding well to the new variant of COVID-19 which is rapidly spreading in the country, officials from the Health Promotion Bureau told

The Sri Lankan government today (April 23) published revised guidelines with regard to public activities in response to the COVID-19 situation.

Health authorities have decided to get tough as daily infections spiral with over 500 people testing positive for the Coronavirus as of last evening.

The Ministry of Health has issued a circular to ensure that the health guidelines are followed during the month of Ramadan beginning on the 14th of April in Sri Lanka