Sri Lanka announced Friday it has confirmed its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in an unvaccinated person who returned from Nigeria. Health ministry spokesperson Dr. Hemantha ...

Overcrowded COVID-19 patients at Colombo North Hospital at Ragama in August 2021. COVID-19 infections have been increasing in Sri Lanka since May this year. With the complete absence of mass testing ...

Sri Lankan health authorities further relaxed limited health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic amid the warnings of scientists internationally including in Sri Lanka about the dangers of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Manjula Wijesuriya had COVID-19, but his friends and family say that’s not what killed him. When the 51-year-old tutor suffered a heart attack in late July, his loved ones rushed ...

Srilanka, June 11 -- The Ministry of Health and Mass Media has assured the public that there is no immediate threat of a new COVID-19 variant spreading in Sri Lanka and urged against unnecessary panic ...

Sri Lanka is in the grip of multiple crises. In addition to a worsening COVID-19 situation, the country is grappling with an economic crisis, and food and fuel shortages. The military is at the ...

COLOMBO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday ordered frontline workers and tourism staff to be given a third booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine next month, part of a bid ...

Two tropical islands half a world apart and popular with tourists – Jamaica in the Caribbean and Sri Lanka in South Asia – are now among the highest-risk destinations for travelers. That’s according ...

The World Bank reallocated $56 million from ongoing projects into a Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) Pool funding, an emergency response mechanism New mechanism established to provide ...

Sri Lankan health workers transport the dead body of a person to test for COVID-19 before handing over them to families in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. “Everything changed around ...

Since May 2020, the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project (ERHSP) has helped the Government of Sri Lanka respond to emergency needs by providing essential medical ...