COVID-19

By Mike Ives THIMPU - Less than two weeks ago, a charter flight carrying half a million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine took off from Kentucky and touched down at the international airport in Bhutan. By Monday (26), most adults in the…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka on Tuesday (27) postponed the second Twenty20 international against India just hours before its start, after an Indian player tested positive for coronavirus. All-rounder Krunal Pandya was found positive during a…
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By Heather Scott WASHINGTON - The global economy will expand by 6% this year, but disparities between nations are widening as advanced economies accelerate while developing countries fall behind, the IMF said Tuesday (27). While the…
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COLOMBO - Over 50,000 people have been arrested in Sri Lanka since last October for violating the quarantine laws amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected 296,516 people to date. According to Police Spokesperson Ajith Rohana,…
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By Kaouther Larbi TUNIS -Street clashes erupted Monday (26) outside Tunisia's army-barricaded Parliament, a day after President Kais Saied ousted the prime minister and suspended the legislature, plunging the young democracy into a…
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COLOMBO - The Delta variant of SARS-cov 2, the virus causing the novel coronavirus infection, is likely to become the dominant strain in Sri Lanka in the coming weeks, medical specialists have warned. Local media, quoting the President…
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NEW DELHI - The number of excess deaths in India during the coronavirus pandemic could be 10 times higher than the official toll from the disease, research published on Tuesday (20) said. The study by the US-based Centre for Global…
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YANGON - A close colleague and trusted friend of Myanmar's one-time de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has died in prison of complications from COVID-19. Nyan Win, 78, was a prominent politician and the former spokesman for Suu Kyi's…
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By Agnes Anya, with AFP bureaus JAKARTA - Indonesia, Iran and France were suffering alarming surges in coronavirus cases Tuesday (20), as governments raced to vaccinate populations in a bid to outpace the highly contagious Delta variant…
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COLOMBO - The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) on Tuesday (20) warned the country was heading towards a fourth wave of the novel coronavirus breakout. Issuing the warning, president of the SLMA, Dr. Padma Gunaratne, told local media,…
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