ACJU requests Muslim Community to temporarily stop Jumuah

Japan to send India $50m in additional grant for fighting COVID

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Wednesday that Tokyo will contribute up to 5.5 billion yen ($50.3 million) in additional grant aid to India to help battle the coronavirus pandemic as the South Asian country is in crisis amid rapid spreading of the virus including more contagious variants. In an online meeting with Motegi, his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar expressed gratitude for Japan’s assistance, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said. On Friday, Japan said it will send

11 May, 2021

Community spread of Indian variant in Sri Lanka not expected

The Government says it does not anticipate a community spread of the Indian variant of the coronavirus in Sri Lanka. Cabinet co- spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila told reporters today that the B.1.617 variant spreading in India was detected on an individual undergoing quarantine at a Government quarantine centre. He said that State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control, Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle had confirmed that as the detection was made at a quarantine ce

11 May, 2021

UN warns B.1.617 capable of breaching vaccine

By Easwaran Rutnam? As Sri Lanka looks to expand the coronavirus vaccination programe, 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. ? UN World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan told a foreign news agency that the epidemiological features of the variant, B.1.617 is deadlier than the original virus, quickly transmitted and can often move past vaccine protections

11 May, 2021