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Sri Lanka among top 15 countries with worst records
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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A right abrogated
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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Lifting the veil of the COVID-19 unknown
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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The virus may be spreading much faster than official data suggest in Sri Lanka
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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Uncomfortable truths with the pandemic response
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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The lockdown that felt like it might last forever has finally ended
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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Understanding pandemic fatigue
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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Solution for COVID-19 free workplaces, a testing method for Sri Lankan companies
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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Trump hospitalized with coronavirus
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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Leaders who caught virus: Johnson, Bolsonaro and now Trump
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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