International Affairs
චීනයේ ධනවත්ම මිනිසා වන, ’අලි බබා’ නැමැති අන්තර්ජාල අලෙවිකරණ සමාගමේ නිර්මාතෘ ’ජැක් මා විසින් කොරෝනා වයිරසයට එරෙහිව සටන් කිරීම සඳහා ’ශ්රී ලංකාව’ ඇතුළු ආසියානු රටවල් කිහිපයකට, මුහුණු ආවරණ මිලියන 1.8ක් සහ කොරොන වයිරස් ’පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල’ 210,000ක් ලබා දීමට කටයුතු යොදනු ලැබ තිබේ.
කෝවිඩ් 19 හෙවත් නව කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය හේතුවෙන් යළි පැමිණීමට නොහැකිව අපහසුතාවට පත්වී සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකිකයින් සඳහා සුදුසු පරිදි වීසා කාලය දීර්ඝ කරන්නැයි ශ්රී ලංකාව, විදෙස් රාජ්‍යන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කර තිබෙනවා.
The Government yesterday banned arrivals from UK, Belgium and Norway for two weeks, extending the number of countries in the list to over 15.
Higher Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane said Sri Lanka would receive another US$ 700 million in May as a concessionary loan from China Development Bank .
Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has requested foreign governments to facilitate the appropriate extension of visas for Sri Lankans currently visiting their countries, and facing difficulty to return to Sri Lanka.
කොවිඩ් නයින්ටීන් වෛරසයට එරෙහිව සටන් වැදීම සඳහා ක්‍රමෝපායක් සැකසීම සම්බන්ධව ඉන්දීය අගමැති මෝදිගේ ප්රකාශයට, ශ්රී ලංකා ජනපති ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වා ඇත.
මැලේරියාව සහ දරුණු ආත්‍රයිටිස් තත්වයන් සඳහා ලබාදෙන ක්ලෝරොක්වීන් ඖෂධය කොරෝනා (කොවිඩ්-19) සඳහා ඇමරිකානු ඖෂධ පාලක අධිකාරිය (FDA) විසින් නිර්දේශ කර තිබේ.
ශ්රී ලංකා රජය සහ චීන සංවර්ධන බැංකුව අතර ඇ.ඩො. මිලියන 500 ක මූල්‍ය පහසුකමක් සඳහා වන ගිවිසුම අද (18) ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ඉදිරියේ දී අරලියගහ මැදුරේදී අත්සන් තැබිණි.
WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump Friday declared a national emergency, clearing the way for more federal aid to stream to states and cities to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
The US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announced an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support strengthening civil society in Sri Lanka.
කොවිඞ් නයින්ටීන් හෙවත් නව කොරෝනා වෛරසයේ ව්‍යාප්තිය සළකා ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය, ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාව මෙන්ම අග්නිදිග ආසියාවේ රටවල්වලටද දැඩි අනතුරු ඇගවීමක් සිදුකර තිබෙනවා. ඒ, වෛරසයේ ව්‍යාප්තිය වැළැක්වීම සදහා වහාම පියවර ගතයුතු බවට දැනුම් දෙමින්.
කොරෝනා වෛරසය පරීක්ෂා කිරීමේ කට්ටල 1000ක් සහ මුහුණු ආවරන 50000ක් චීන රජය විසින් මෙරටට පරිත්‍යාග කෙරේ.
The coronavirus global death toll has surpassed 11,000 and infected more than 260,000 people worldwide, according to health officials.
More than 10,200 new cases were reported Friday in Europe, which World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this week had become the epicenter of the outbreak after cases began to wane in China, where the outbreak began.
There were at least 87,108 cases in Europe on Friday and 4,084 deaths. Spain reported 235 new deaths on Friday, becoming the second-hardest-hit European country after Italy. Italy’s overall death toll passed 4,000 Friday.
Spanish officials warned Friday that the situation could soon overcome the country’s health care system. They announced plans to turn a Madrid conference center into a makeshift hospital. Earlier this week, a four-star inn in Madrid was converted into a hospital.
Germany, another hard-hit country, is trying to increase the number of intensive care beds, which now total 28,000, by establishing temporary hospitals in hotels, rehabilitation clinics and other facilities. There were nearly 20,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany. Officials there said coronavirus could strike as many as 10 million Germans unless proper precautions were taken, including social distancing.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said dining establishments, bars and other leisure businesses were ordered to close down Friday night.
In the United States, the Trump administration announced the effective closure of its borders with Canada and Mexico and invoked a federal law to get emergency medical supplies to front-line health care workers and the private sector mobilized to combat the pandemic.
United States of America (USA) has extended support to strengthen the corona virus prevention and healthcare system at Bandaranaike International Airport with the aim of minimising the spreading of COVID-19 in the island nation.
කෝවිඩ් 19 හෙවත් නව කොරෝනා වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් අමෙරිකාවේ ප‍්‍රාන්ත 23 කට හදිසි තත්ත්වයක් ප්රකාශයට පත් කර තිබෙනවා.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated a US $600,000 grant from the Health System Enhancement Project to the Government of Sri Lanka to finance preventive and response efforts to fight a potential novel corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.
Workers wearing protective gear disinfect as a precaution against the new coronavirus at the subway station in Seoul, South Korea, March 11, 2020.
The World Health Organization determined Wednesday that the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic and warned that the worst is likely yet to come.
"In the past two weeks, the number of of COVID-19 infections outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.
Tedros said WHO is “deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction.
"In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of COVID-19 cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries to climb even higher," he said.
Governments around the world are trying to take steps to address the ever-changing outbreak of the new coronavirus, which, since December, has infected more than 118,000 people and killed about 4,300 in 114 countries.
Tedros said his organization has “rung the alarm bell loud and clear,” and that countries “can still change the course of this pandemic.”
He said 90% of all coronavirus cases are limited to only four countries, and that two of them, China and South Korea, “have significantly declining epidemics.”
The virus, known officially as COVID-19, first emerged in China, where health officials Wednesday reported 24 new cases.
While the increase represents a sustained decline from the height of the outbreak in China, the country where the government puts cities on lockdown to prevent inter-community spread is now dealing with an increase in the number of cases arriving from other nations.
That prompted officials in Beijing to order anyone arriving to go into a 14-day quarantine.
Italy follows China's playbook
Italy has followed China's playbook after becoming a secondary center of the outbreak with more than 10,000 reported cases so far and cases in numerous other countries linked to people who traveled from Italy. Italians were under a second day of a nationwide lockdown Wednesday with people only able to move around for urgent health and work reasons.
The coronavirus threat prompted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to warn Wednesday that up to 70-percent of Germany’s population could eventually be infected if current conditions continue. Nearly 1,300 people have been infected so far in Germany and two others have died.
Officials in the United States are showing increased concern as the number of cases there surpassed 1,000.
When asked at a congressional hearing Wednesday if the worst of the outbreak has yet to materialize, U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci responded, “I can say we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now.”
The congressional hearing was cut short when President Donald Trump called an emergency meeting at the White House, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney announced before opening the hearing.
US outbreak pockets
There are pockets of outbreaks in the western state of Washington, where the governor is expected to announce a ban on gatherings of more than 250 people, and across the country in New York where that state's governor is instituting an isolation zone around a community with more than 100 reported cases.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Wednesday blamed China for squandering a chance to get ahead of the outbreak.
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