Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara says a report on two locations having deep water table was submitted to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi. The minister has attended a discussion which was held by the prime minister with the Muslim parliamentarians and was assigned to locate areas with a […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කැලණි ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ කොරෝනා මර්ධන ඖෂධය ලබා ගැනීමට තමන්ද ඉතා කැමැත්තෙන් සිටිනා බව අමාත්‍ය වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එය ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා දැනටත් ක්‍රියා කරමින් සිටින බවද ඒ මහතා පැවසීය. කාලි මෑණියන්ගේ වරමකින් ලබාදුන්නේ ද නැද්ද යන නොව එහි අඩංගුව ගැන සොයා බැලීම වටිනා බවද පැවසූ ඔහු ඇතැමුන් […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has recorded four new Covid-19 related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed a short while ago. Following the new development, the country’s death toll from the virus has escalated to 191, the Government Information Department said. One of the victims was identified as a 66-year-old man from Pitakotte area. He […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka went past 41,000 as 212 more persons were tested positive today. The Government Information Department stated that 206 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market and the remaining 06 are arrivals from the UAE (01), Qatar (01), Italy […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health urges people to refrain from propagating false news regarding coronavirus related deaths. The Ministry points out that some politicians and websites are spreading false information about the manner in which the bodies of COVID-19 victims are cremated. A statement issued by the Ministry of Health stated that the bodies […]

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Courtesy The Times (UK) Science offers hope despite fears  about the effect of quick-spreading coronavirus variants Borders closed, lockdowns were tightened and dire warnings of aggressive new outbreaks were issued. Scientists worried about the vulnerability of children and politicians agonised over shutting schools. There was scant relief on the coronavirus front last week, as the […]

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Courtesy Times (UK) Oxford jab expected to win approval ‘in days’ The coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and Astra Zeneca is expected to win approval this week as the head of the drugs giant said it should be” effective against the highly transmissible new strain of the virus. Senior government officials expect the drugs […]

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