COVID-19

• Sri Lanka’ test, trace, treat pandemic management strategy has relied heavily on the country’s well established public healthcare system. • Nearly a year in, health workers from around the country have gained valuable insights and…
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By Jing Xuan Teng BEIJING - A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicized visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s College of Community Physicians (CCPSL) in a definitive statement on the disposal of the Covid-dead has said there is no solid evidence indicating burial would increase the spread of the virus, and recommend, in…
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By Apoorva Mandavilli Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain on Saturday (19) sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating…
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By Fabien Zamora PARIS - Measures imposed by governments to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have squeezed civil liberties worldwide, with authoritarian regimes seeking to exploit the restrictions as a way to shore up their sometimes shaky…
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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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