International Affairs

යුරෝපා සංගමයට අයත් රටවලින් මෙරටට පැමිණ සිටි සංචාරකයන් යළි ආරක්ෂිතව මව් රටවලට යොමු කිරීමට ලක් රජය ගත් ක්‍රියාමාර්ග යුරෝපා සංගමය ඇගයීමට ලක් කර ඇත.

Covid-19 ridden Maldives and Bhutan two SAARC members have made requests from India and Sri Lanka to provide them with essential food stocks as humanitarian assistance at this time of difficulty.

NEW DELHI - India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle to contain the country's biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its latest report, Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2020 released on Friday (3) forecasted significant headwinds for Sri Lanka’s economy as it fights the spread of COVID-19, which comes less than 12 months after the terror attacks in April 2019.

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was diagnosed with the new coronavirus more than a week ago, was admitted to a hospital Sunday for tests.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit a grim milestone of 1 million confirmed cases.

India yesterday gifted a 10 tonne consignment of essential life saving medicines to Government of Sri Lanka, in view of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. These medicines have been requested by Government of Sri Lanka. The consignment was brought to Sri Lanka by an Air India Special Charter flight today.

Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaAs Sri Lanka continues to battle coronavirus (COVID-19), the United Nations (UN) says emergency fiscal support will help the country cope with the added burden on the healthcare system due to extra patients and testing.

The government will e signing an agreement with the World Bank on Friday3 to obtain a loan worth US$ 127 million to support its efforts in combating COVID – 19, Treasury Secretary S. R Attygalle said.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Colombo has denied claims made in some local media with regards to the burial of coronavirus victims.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Sri Lanka has stepped in to support the national authorities in their efforts to protect the public and the detainee population against the spread of COVID-19, the ICRC said. In coordination with the Ministry of Health, the ICRC has proposed a response plan that includes recommendations shared with the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Prisons and the Inspector General of Police and other relevant authorities. “In contribution to the ICRC global response plan and emergency appeal, we have adapted our programmes in Sri Lanka to support the efforts of the authorities on COVID-19 given our specific technical expertise on public health, forensics, health in detention, disinfection and waste management”, said Loukas Petridis, head of the ICRC delegation in Sri Lanka. Monitoring treatment and conditions of detention is an utmost priority for ICRC which has been visiting places of detention in Sri Lanka since 1989.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted US $100,000 (Rs 18.17 million) to Sri Lanka for the purchase of emergency medical supplies through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in support of the country’s ongoing response to the novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic.

කොරෝනා (COVID-19) වෛරසය ආසාදනයවීමෙන් මේ වන විට ලන්ඩන් හි රෝහල් ගතව දැඩි සත්කාර ඒකකයේ ප්‍රතිකාර ලබන බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අගමැති බොරිස් ජොන්සන් මහතාට ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉක්මන් සුවය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කරයි.

The International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) of the World Bank Group agreed to provide financing assistance amounting to United States Dollars (USD) 128.6 million to the Sri Lankan effort to battle against Covid 19 outbreak.

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced Wednesday it has more than 1,300 asymptomatic coronavirus cases, the first time it has acknowledged cases of people testing positive for the virus but not showing symptoms.

Drugs for Non-communicable disease will arrive in Sri Lanka from India today, the President’s office said.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසය මර්දනය කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙල සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය වෙත ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 128.6 ක ණය මුදලක් ලබාදීමට ලෝක බැංකුව තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා. එම ආයතනය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් කියා සිටින්නේ මෙම ණය මුදල හරහා සමස්ත ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ප්‍රජාවටම ප්‍රතිලාභ අත්වන බවයි.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging global crisis since World War II.