COVID-19

By Chanka Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Despite a promising start, Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 vaccination strategy has proved a failure due to gross mismanagement in the rollout, charged President of the  College of Community Physicians Sri Lanka, Dr.…
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By Ron Depasquale and Isabella Grullón Paz WASHINGTON - States have continued steadily lifting restrictions, despite warnings from top federal health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci that new coronavirus cases in the United States have…
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ROME - A global pandemic isn't keeping Italy from celebrating the 700th anniversary of national poet Dante Alighieri's death, with hundreds of events planned, said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. Readings, exhibitions, concerts and…
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By Chris Buckley Xi Jinping has struck a confident posture as he looks to secure China’s prosperity and power in a post-COVID world, saying that the country is entering a time of opportunity when “the East is rising, and the West is…
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COLOMBO - A plan by Sri Lanka to bury Muslim coronavirus victims on a remote islet was slammed on Wednesday (3) by locals and the minority community. Colombo banned burials of COVID-19 victims in April, despite expert assurances they…
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By Shreen Saroor On February 24, following the Interactive Dialogue on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), where the burial issue dominated discussion of Sri Lanka’s respect for minority rights, the government…
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COLOMBO –The Sri Lankan government’s decision to designate the troubled island of Iranaitivu, off the Kilinochchi coast in the Gulf of Mannar, as a burial site for Muslim victims of COVID-19, is expected to worsen the current tense…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government has chosen Iranaitivu, an island off the North West Sri Lankan coast, as the sole place to bury the Covid-dead, if their families want burial instead of cremation. Sri Lanka last…
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GENEVA - It is unrealistic to think that the world will be done with the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday (March 1). The WHO’s emergencies director Michael Ryan said it might be…
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Sri Lanka has in a welcome move reversed its order that mandated all those dying of COVID-19 be cremated. The government had issued this controversial order last year based on fears expressed by some people that burying COVID-19 victims…
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