Police probe death of Pakistani woman on SriLankan flight

Below 25 percent of the population in Sri Lanka fully immune

Below 25 percent of the population in Sri Lanka are fully immune to the coronavirus, health expert said today. Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the Sri Jayewardenepura University said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) supports achieving ‘herd immunity’ through vaccination, not by allowing a disease to spread through any segment of the population, as this would result in unnecessary cases and deaths. He tweeted quoting the WH

14 Aug, 2021

Sri Lanka secures 2 million syringes from Kenya

Sri Lanka has secured 2 million syringes from Kenya of which the first consignment of 800,000 syringes have been dispatched to Colombo. In support of the ongoing? vigorous vaccination campaign against COVID-19 undertaken in Sri Lanka under the leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Sri Lanka High Commission in Kenya arranged a consignment of an initial order of 2 million syringes from a WHO prequalified company namely, Revital Healthcare(EPZ) Ltd in Kenya to be sent to Sri Lanka. The

14 Aug, 2021

Links unearthed between Pakistan and Sri Lanka boat seized with heroin

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of five AK-47 rifles and 3,000-crore worth of heroin from a Sri Lanka boat off the Kerala coast on March 25 has found that a Pakistan national was the main handler of the smugglers, the New Indian Express reported. The NIA got these details while questioning Suresh Raj, aka Chinna Suresh, 39, and Soundarajan, aka Soundar, 21, in the past 13 days. Both were first arrested by Tamil Nadu Q Branch. Later, following a directive of the N

14 Aug, 2021