PARIS - After dark months struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, Europe is finally hitting its stride, with vaccinations and economies picking up, countries emerging from lockdowns, and even opening their borders to foreign tourists.
Sri Lanka did not require the approval of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to commence using the Sinopharm vaccine.
Sri Lanka has entered into a $ 500 million loan agreement with the EXIM Bank of Korea to finance development projects, the Finance Ministry said in a statement yesterday.
BANGKOK - Thailand recorded its highest number of coronavirus infections Thursday since the pandemic began after Bangkok prisons were found riddled with COVID-19, threatening an extension of a partial lockdown of the country that is hammering the economy.
ඊශ්රායලය ගාසා තීරයට එල්ල කළ රොකට් ප්රහාරවලින් මිය ගිය ගණන 32 දෙනෙකු දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් ඇති බව පලස්තීනය පවසනවා. 200කට වැඩි පිරිසක් එම ප්රහාරවලින් තුවාල ලැබූ බවයි පලස්තීන බලධාරීන් පවසන්නේ. මියගිය පිරිස අතර ළමුන් දස දෙනෙකු සිටින බවද විදෙස් මාධ්ය වාර්තාවල සදහන්.
U.S. regulators have authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech to be used by children as young as 12, widening the pool of those eligible to get inoculated.
Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha attended the inauguration ceremony of Admiral John Aquilino as the Commander of the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), presided over by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, last weekend.
Authorities in India said Tuesday they have yet to determine the cause of death of dozens of people found dead in the Ganges River.
LONDON - European and Chinese leaders are urging swift ratification of the trade deal they agreed to in December, after tensions over accusations of human rights abuses in China delayed approval of the deal by European Union lawmakers.
The leaders of independent panel charged with examining the cause and response of the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday called for a better, more cooperative and transparent global system for dealing with future worldwide health emergencies.
Malaysia will be imposing a nationwide movement control order (MCO) beginning on Wednesday (May 12) until early next month to stem the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Monday.
සෞඛ්ය හේතූන් මත හෝ වෙනත් අවශ්යතා මත ඉන්දියාවට ගොස් සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් නැවත ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළක් කඩිනමින් ක්රියාත්මක කරන බව සංචාරක ඇමති ප්රසන්න රණතුංග පැවැසුවේය. මේ සඳහා අවශ්ය ක්රියාමාර්ග මීළඟ සතියේදී ගන්නා බවද ඇමැතිවරයා සඳහන් කළේය.
A day after declaring the COVID-19 variant first detected in India as one of global concern, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday that the variant has spread to 49 countries.
As Sri Lanka looks to expand the coronavirus vaccination programme, the United Nations (UN) has warned that vaccination is not a guarantee and that the B.1.617 variant spreading in India could breach vaccine protection.
මෙම වසරේ අගෝස්තු මාසය වනවිට ඉන්දියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන කොරෝනා මරණ සංඛ්යාව මිලියනයකට ආසන්න වනු ඇතැයි වෛද්ය විශේෂඥයින් හා ලෝක ප්රකට සගරාවක් පුරෝකථනය කරනවා. ඉන්දියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන දෛනික කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින්ගේ සංඛ්යාව හා දෛනික කොරෝනා මරණ සංඛ්යාව ඉහළ යන ආකාරය සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන එම සංඛ්යාව අනුමාන කළ හැකි බවයි අදාළ සගරාව වාර්තා කරන්නේ.
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපතිවරයා අතර හමුවක් මේ වනවිට පැවැත්වෙනවා.
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday met with Canadian High Commissioner David McKinnon to convey the Government’s opposition to the passing of a private members bill by the Ontario Legislative Assembly, the Ministry said yesterday.
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has requested China to supply oxygen and ventilators to Sri Lanka's Health Ministry as the country battles a rising number of COVID-19 patients, the Daily Mirror learns.
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