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India launches world?s largest vaccination program

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the all-India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing. Considered to be the world?s largest vaccination program, it covers 30 million health care and frontline programme workers across India in the first phase. The endeavor is to cover 300 million in the second phase. Elderly population and those with serious illness would be the focus groups in this phase. A total of 3006 session sites were virtually connected during

16 Jan, 2021

Sri Lanka to commence flights to Myanmar

Sri Lanka will commence flights to Myanmar in the post COVID-19 phase, the Foreign Ministry announced. Issuing a statement, the Ministry said Sri Lanka expects to commence charter flights from mid- 2021, while airports will reopen for tourism from 21 January 2021. In this backdrop, it has been decided to establish air connectivity with Myanmar. During a virtual discussion held in this regard, Regional Manager (Southeast Asia) of the Sri Lankan Airlines, Mohan Meegolla insisted Sri Lanka can c

15 Jan, 2021

Decision to allow resumption of tuition classes in Western Province suspended

The decision to allow the resumption of tuition classes in the Western Province has been suspended. The Education Ministry had announced recently that tuition classes will be allowed to resume from 25 January by following the health guidelines. However, the Health Ministry today said that tuition classes will be allowed to resume from 25 January only for ordinary level and advanced level students, except in the Western Province. Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardana said t

16 Jan, 2021