COVID-19

By Marc Préel STOCKHOLM - More than six in 10 countries around the world have adopted measures during the COVID-19 pandemic that threaten democracy or human rights, a report by democracy institute International IDEA said Wednesday (9).…
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By P.K. Balachandran COLOMBO - Sri Lankan civil society organizations agitating for the Muslims’ right to bury their COVID-dead have declared they will explore options to secure their inalienable religious right. “The faith the families…
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By M.C.M. Iqbal In the last few months, considerable scientific evidence has been published in international peer reviewed journals about the novel coronavirus and its environmental impact, enabling us to remove the veil of ‘unknowns’…
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By Dr. Ravi Rannan-Eliya The daily case reports from the Epidemiology Unit of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health are the only data we have to assess the spread of the virus. A better measure would be a regularly updated or “now-casted”…
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By Bhavani Fonseka Sri Lanka is presently in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases with a lockdown enforced in parts of country. An island-wide lockdown earlier in 2020 witnessed the country coming to a standstill with no functioning…
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By Yan Zhuang and Damien Cave MELBOURNE — As if from hibernation, Australia’s second-largest city emerged from one of the world’s longest and most severe lockdowns Wednesday (28), feeling both traumatized and euphoric after weeks of…
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By Shashika Bandara Sri  Lanka is seeing an uptick in infections with 1,307 total infections with 1,180 new infections confirmed in the seven days up to October 10. Amidst this increase an unhealthy narrative is starting to take hold.…
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By Nishan Sumanadeera Post COVID-19 lockdown and a post General Election 2020, most Sri Lankans never thought or hardly imagined of a resurgence of the worst global pandemic in 21st century that has shaken the economies around the world.…
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By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was hospitalized Friday (2) after learning he had the coronavirus and experiencing what aides called coughing, congestion and fever, throwing the nation’s leadership…
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By Kaly Soto and Elian Peltier As the coronavirus has spread around the globe, world leaders have not been spared. With his positive coronavirus test, President Donald Trump joins the ranks of others like Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
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