Infection

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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By Marc Santora LONDON - As nightclubs across England threw open their doors for the first time in 16 months and people embraced on crowded dance floors into the dawn Monday (19), the nation that had imposed one of the most stringent and…
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COLOMBO - Medical experts have warned that the Delta variant, which was detected in the country recently, may cause havoc in the weeks ahead, local media reported here Monday (19). Professor Neelika Malavige, from the  Department of…
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By Fira Abdurachman, Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono BEKASI, Indonesia — By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give…
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JAKARTA - Virus-wracked Indonesia posted record daily infections topping 54,000 on Wednesday (14)  as the highly infectious Delta variant rips across the archipelago, catapulting it ahead of India as Asia's COVID-19 epicentre. The…
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COLOMBO -  Sri Lanka's health authorities administered the highest number of vaccines in a single day on Monday (12) with 232,526 people, including school teachers and non-academic staff, being inoculated, the Health Ministry was quoted by…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's Health Ministry on Monday (12) received 26,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccines, the second batch of the vaccine to arrive in the country this month. The vaccines were carried by a Qatar Airways flight from the United…
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COLOMBO – With dedicated hospitals and treatment centres almost full to capacity, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health has said select COVID-19 patients will be treated at home under the supervision of divisional medical officers of the ministry.…
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COLOMBO – Sri Lanka will ban inbound passengers from Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait from July 1 to July 13 as COVID-19 confirmation among returnees, particularly from the Gulf countries, continue to…
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By Carl Zimmer Researchers have found evidence that a coronavirus epidemic swept East Asia some 20,000 years ago and was devastating enough to leave an evolutionary imprint on the DNA of people alive today. The new study suggests that…
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