On April 20, a 76-year-old man from Neerveli village, in northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna district, died after he was found to be infected with COVID-19 at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital. The bodies of COVID ...

In the last week of December, three COVID-19 deaths were reported in Sri Lanka, raising serious concerns of a renewed surge in COVID-19 pandemic. On December 24, a 65-year-old man died of pneumonia in ...

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of their Twenty20 series in Australia, the country's cricket board said on Tuesday. Mendis was named in the ...

MUMBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank left its key policy rates steady on Thursday amid the renewed challenges posed by the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic and said it remains committed ...

Photo courtesy of Quartz Sri Lanka has suffered five decades of violent conflict, a tsunami, Covid-19 and an economic crisis, ...

Sri Lanka, May 30 -- The Government has stepped up its testing and surveillance efforts in the country in response to growing global concerns surrounding a newly emerging COVID-19 variant. The ...

Rights activists have called for accountability from Sri Lankan authorities over the forced cremation of Muslim bodies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chirantha Amarasinghe, a Catholic activist, filed a ...