The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $150 million for Sri Lanka to purchase COVID-19 vaccines and to improve vaccination information, delivery, and monitoring systems.
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday (9) said the SJB will launch islandwide protests to bring real problems of the people to light. “We are sure that the Police Officers have been pressured to act in a cruel manner towards the protesters.
Sri Lanka’s Director General of Health Services further relaxed the existing COVID-19 restrictions. However, Inter-Provincial movement will remain restricted for another 14 days.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a Gazette Extraordinary further amending the institutional and legal framework of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry Economic Policies and Plan Implementation.
Disciplinary action will be taken against any players, no matter how talented, for dishonouring the country they are representing, Sports and Youth Minister Namal Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday (08).
Public Security Minister Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera told Parliament yesterday that it was unfair to blame the entire police force for the sins of a few errant cops.
The administration of the Pfizer vaccine, which commenced on Wednesday (7) in the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) limits to recipients of the first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVISHIELD vaccine, was temporarily suspended.
A locality in Kalutara District was isolated with effect from 6.00 am today (July 09), says the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).
Two State Ministry Portfolios of Shasheendra Rajapaksa and Mohan de Silva were reshuffled and they were sworn in their new portfolios before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this afternoon.
An extraordinary gazette notification issued by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (07) detailing the duties and functions of the Finance Ministry which comes under the preview of Minister basil Rajapaksa.
31 persons including Ven. Rathkarawwa Jinarathana Thera and Ceylon Teachers’ Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin have been arrested for staging a protest at the Polduwa Round-about violating quarantine order this morning.
