International Affairs

State Minister of Money, Capital Markets and Public Enterprises Reform Nivard Cabraal yesterday described China as a “true friend” for its further support via donation of the Sinopharm vaccine.

චීනය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට තවත් සීනෝෆාම් එන්නත් මාත්‍රා 500,000 ක් ලබා දෙනු ඇත. චීනයේ විදේශ අමාත්‍යංශය විසින් මේ බව බීජිංහි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ආචාර්ය පාලිත කොහොන මැතිතුමා වෙත 2021 මැයි 19 වැනි දින සනාථ කරන ලදී. මීට පෙර චීනය දැනට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ භාවිතා කරනු ලබන මාත්‍රා 600,000 ක ප්‍රමාණයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට තෑගි කළේය.

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

GENEVA - Ending the COVID-19 pandemic and preventing future pandemics is expected to dominate discussions during this week’s 74th World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization. The session will also address other pressing global health issues.

සීඝ්‍රයෙන් ව්‍යාප්ත වන කොරෝනා වසංගත තත්ත්වය පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා මැයි 31 දක්වා සියලු මගී ගුවන් යානා දිවයිනට ඇතුළු වීම තහනම් කර ඇත . කෙසේවෙතත් මේ රටෙන් පිටත්වන ගුවන් යානා සඳහා තහනමක් පනවා නොමැත.

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

India is nearing 300,000 recorded deaths from the coronavirus, after adding more than 3,700 deaths in the last 24 hours.

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).

ROME - Leaders of the Group of 20 industrial and emerging-market nations made a commitment at a global health summit in Rome to speed up the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca are about as effective against the coronavirus variant first found in India as they are against the variant first found in England, according to a study by Public Health England announced Saturday.

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.

The United States has not yet decided if Sri Lanka will be among the beneficiaries of Covid vaccines it hopes to share with the world.

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.