By Rathindra Kuruwita The country would be able to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year only if people followed health guidelines properly and behaved in a responsible manner, Deputy Director General of Health Services, Dr. Hemantha Herath told a press briefing yesterday at the Health Promotion Bureau. “Everyone has to abide by health guidelines. […]
A medical specialist yesterday urged parents not to send their children to school if they showed any symptoms of COVID-19. Paediatrician at the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital Dr. Channa de Silva said that those symptoms included fever, cold, diarrhoea or vomiting. Dr. de Silva said that there had been an increase in the children who […]
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has contracted COVID-19. Speaker Abeywardena remained at his home till last evening and thereafter was admitted to the IDH. About 40 out of 225 had contracted Covide-19 and recovered, parliamentary sources said. (AP)
By Saman Indrajith The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) will launch it’s agriculture policy today near the Parakrama Samudraya, Polonnaruwa, with Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa attending the event. Party MP Nalin Bandara said that the policy would spell out how the SJB proposed to develop agriculture, empower farmers and apply technology. “A number of farmers and […]
Litro legal wrangle: By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Prof. Charitha Herath has said the government is duty bound to prevent questionable actions of those who are at the helm of public sector enterprises. The MP has suggested that those responsible for such actions be made to compensate the […]