International Affairs

The Tokyo Olympics will go ahead even if the city is under a state of emergency due to COVID-19, a top Olympic official said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing organisers of the pandemic-hit Games.

Port City Colombo, Sri Lanka’s brand-new reclaimed land, slated as the ‘Gateway to South Asia’ said yesterday it is now officially the country’s first service-oriented Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

Sri Lanka has made a request to the US for Covid vaccines which the US had announced will be made available to other countries.

GENEVA - The true number of global deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic is probably two to three times higher than those officially documented, findings in this year's World Health Statistics Report suggest.

The European Union Thursday announced it has signed a third contract with Pfizer-BioNTech for an additional 1.8 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, running from the end of this year through 2022.

Sri Lanka remained deeply concerned over escalating violence between Palestine and Israel, the Foreign Ministry said.

A resident is vaccinated against COVID in Anama town, Amazon, Brazil on May 20, 2021.

Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) based in Colombo called on Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Tuesday at the Foreign Ministry, and discussed issues of mutual interest, including EU-Sri Lanka cooperation, and the GSP Plus process.

MUMBAI - In India, the health care crisis triggered by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is shifting from big cities to small towns and rural areas. But as ill-equipped medical infrastructure in villages leaves people struggling to cope with the deadly virus, health experts say combating its spread in rural areas has emerged as the country’s new challenge.

ලොව සියලු රටවලට බලපා තිබෙන කොරෝනා වෛරසය නැසීම සඳහා පර්යේෂණාගාරයක් තුළ ප්‍රතිවෛරසයක් නිපදවීමට ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු විද්‍යාඥයින් පිරිසක් සමත්වී තිබෙන බව එරට මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කර තිබේ.

The Government has requested International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to divert funds allocated for the second, third and fourth quarter action plans for the purchase of high-flow oxygen machines.

With little more than two months to go before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, a major Japanese medical association is calling for the cancellation of the event due to the current surge of new COVID-19 infections.

UK Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth Tariq Ahmad has cancelled his planned visit to Sri Lanka early next week.

JOHANNESBURG - The United States announced this week that it will share an additional 20 million coronavirus vaccine doses with other countries, in addition to the 60 million it has already committed. The unanswered question: where will the vaccines go?

Next consignment of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines will arrive in Sri Lanka on May 25 (Tuesday), says State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana.

SriLankan Airlines and Boeing, the leading aerospace company in the US, signed a collaboration MoU in Colombo recently.

සටන් විරාමයක් සදහා ජාත්‍යන්තරයෙන් බලපෑම් එල්ල වුවද ඊශ්‍රායලය සහ පලස්තීන හමාස් සටන්කාමීන් අතර ඊයේ දිනයේදී ගැටුම් හටගෙන තිබෙනවා. පලස්තීන සටන්කාමීන් ඊශ්‍රායලයේ දකුණු ප්‍රදේශයට එල්ල කළ රොකට් ප්‍රහාරවලින් දෙදෙනෙකු මියගොස් ඇති බවයි විදෙස් මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කළේ.

Foreign Ministry in a statement has said Sri Lanka remains deeply concerned over escalating violence between Palestine and Israel.