Category: Local News

The head of the World Health Organization has warned against deliberately allowing coronavirus to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying the idea is unethical.

The Police has requested the public to maintain a log of places they visit either on a mobile phone or in a notebook in the event it is required in future.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 12 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Hela Clothing, an apparel manufacturing group, said that an employee at its Thihariya plant tested positive for Covid-19 on October 11.

The police had not come up with a plan to deal with an impending terrorist attack after the State Intelligence Service (SIS) had received foreign intelligence, on April 04, 2019 that National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his associates would carry out an attack, former IGP Pujith Jayasundara on Saturday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Easter Sunday attacks.

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has summoned the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) S.P. Ranasinghe and the Chief Investigating Officer to meet him today.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 11 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Two villages in Mannar have been declared isolated areas in an attempt to control the COVID-19 pandemic, stated the Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.

Fifteen Senior Police officers including ten Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and SSP Jaliya Senaratne have been transferred with immediate effect.

A student of the University of Kelaniya has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The COVID-19 cluster that was identified from the Brandix factory at Minuwangoda has gone up to 1,186 after two more of its employees and 101 of their contacts tested positive for the virus.

The Grade 05 Scholarship Examination will take place today (Oct. 11), at 2936 examination centres island-wide.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 10 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

Three members of the minor staff at the National Hospital in Colombo have tested positive for COVID-19.

A student of Sri Jayawardenapura University’s Management Faculty has been tested positive for COVID-19. According to the university student union, the student, a resident of Panadura, had been boarded at a hostel and had last visited the university on October 4.

A group of Government MPs have sent a written request to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to have Riyaj Bathiudeen, the brother of All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) Leader MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who had allegedly helped National Thowheed Jama’ath (NTJ) Leader Zaharan Hashim  to flee to India in 2018, rearrested and launch a fresh probe into the allegations levelled at him.