International Affairs

Malaysia will be imposing a nationwide movement control order (MCO) beginning on Wednesday (May 12) until early next month to stem the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Monday.

සෞඛ්‍ය හේතූන් මත හෝ වෙනත් අවශ්‍යතා මත ඉන්දියාවට ගොස් සිටින ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් නැවත ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළක් කඩිනමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බව සංචාරක ඇමති ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග පැවැසුවේය. මේ සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ක්‍රියාමාර්ග මීළඟ සතියේදී ගන්නා බවද ඇමැතිවරයා සඳහන් කළේය.

India reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day Saturday, and a more contagious variant is partly to blame, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said.

As Sri Lanka looks to expand the coronavirus vaccination programme, the United Nations (UN) has warned that vaccination is not a guarantee and that the B.1.617 variant spreading in India could breach vaccine protection.

මෙම වසරේ අගෝස්තු මාසය වනවිට ඉන්දියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන කොරෝනා මරණ සංඛ්‍යාව මිලියනයකට ආසන්න වනු ඇතැයි වෛද්‍ය විශේෂඥයින් හා ලෝක ප්‍රකට සගරාවක් පුරෝකථනය කරනවා. ඉන්දියාවෙන් වාර්තා වන දෛනික කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව හා දෛනික කොරෝනා මරණ සංඛ්‍යාව ඉහළ යන ආකාරය සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන එම සංඛ්‍යාව අනුමාන කළ හැකි බවයි අදාළ සගරාව වාර්තා කරන්නේ.

An out-of-control Chinese rocket is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere between 1:00 and 5:00 UTC Sunday, but experts do not know where debris from the craft will land or exactly when it will happen.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday met with Canadian High Commissioner David McKinnon to convey the Government’s opposition to the passing of a private members bill by the Ontario Legislative Assembly, the Ministry said yesterday.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has requested China to supply oxygen and ventilators to Sri Lanka's Health Ministry as the country battles a rising number of COVID-19 patients, the Daily Mirror learns.

Sri Lanka condemns the terrorist attack on Maldives Speaker and former President Mohamed Abdulla Nasheed, the Foreign Ministry said in a short statement yesterday.

Sri Lanka has entered into a $ 500 million loan agreement with the EXIM Bank of Korea to finance development projects, the Finance Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

England on Saturday announced its green list of 12 countries to travel to where its nationals will not require quarantine upon their return from 17 May.

The World Bank yesterday launched public consultations to update its Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) in Sri Lanka, the organisation said in a statement.

U.S. regulators have authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech to be used by children as young as 12, widening the pool of those eligible to get inoculated.

In a rare yet expected development, a small number of people have developed COVID-19 after they have been vaccinated.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China for emergency use worldwide.

LONDON - European and Chinese leaders are urging swift ratification of the trade deal they agreed to in December, after tensions over accusations of human rights abuses in China delayed approval of the deal by European Union lawmakers.

The remnants of China’s largest rocket have plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit.

PORTO, PORTUGAL - The European Commission called on the United States and other major COVID-19 vaccine producers Friday to export what they make, as the European Union does, rather than talk about waiving intellectual property (IP) rights to the shots.