International Affairs
The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced.
Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in good health", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.
Charles and Camilla are now self-isolating at Balmoral.
Buckingham Palace said the Queen last saw her son, the heir to the throne, on 12 March, but was "in good health".
The palace added that the Duke of Edinburgh was not present at that meeting, and that the Queen was now "following all the appropriate advice with regard to her welfare".
A Clarence House statement read: "In accordance with government and medical advice, the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.
"The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire, where they met the criteria required for testing.
"It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks."
The duke and duchess arrived in Scotland on Sunday. Charles had been displaying mild symptoms over the weekend and was tested by the NHS in Aberdeenshire on Monday.
The results came through on Tuesday night, showing he was positive.
Charles is still working, is up and about and in good spirits.
The 71-year-old heir to the throne last saw the Queen briefly on the 12 March. Three days earlier, mother and son had more protracted contact during the Commonwealth Day Service.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for contributing $ 5 million to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Corona Emergency Fund.
මැලේරියාව සහ දරුණු ආත්‍රයිටිස් තත්වයන් සඳහා ලබාදෙන ක්ලෝරොක්වීන් ඖෂධය කොරෝනා (කොවිඩ්-19) සඳහා ඇමරිකානු ඖෂධ පාලක අධිකාරිය (FDA) විසින් නිර්දේශ කර තිබේ.
In light of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, Temasek Foundation, Singapore has offered to provide 5000 numbers of Fortitude Kit 2.0 (COVID-19 test kits) to the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka will contribute to the SAARC emergency fund proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to combat the outbreak of COVID-19, a minister said.
The US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announced an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support strengthening civil society in Sri Lanka.
Italian embassy in Sri Lanka said ‘the returnees from Italy referenced in recent news publications have never obtained a visa from this Embassy, nor have ever requested one.’
ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ එහි ජනතාව මේ වනවිට මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින කොරෝනා වෛරස ව්‍යාප්තිය පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සහාය ලබාදීමට චීන මහජන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ වෛද්‍ය විශේෂඥයන් පිරිසක් වීම සඳහා ඕනෑම මොහොතක සූදානම් යයි චීන ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා රජයට දන්වා තිබේ.
The coronavirus global death toll has surpassed 11,000 and infected more than 260,000 people worldwide, according to health officials.
More than 10,200 new cases were reported Friday in Europe, which World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this week had become the epicenter of the outbreak after cases began to wane in China, where the outbreak began.
There were at least 87,108 cases in Europe on Friday and 4,084 deaths. Spain reported 235 new deaths on Friday, becoming the second-hardest-hit European country after Italy. Italy’s overall death toll passed 4,000 Friday.
Spanish officials warned Friday that the situation could soon overcome the country’s health care system. They announced plans to turn a Madrid conference center into a makeshift hospital. Earlier this week, a four-star inn in Madrid was converted into a hospital.
Germany, another hard-hit country, is trying to increase the number of intensive care beds, which now total 28,000, by establishing temporary hospitals in hotels, rehabilitation clinics and other facilities. There were nearly 20,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany. Officials there said coronavirus could strike as many as 10 million Germans unless proper precautions were taken, including social distancing.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said dining establishments, bars and other leisure businesses were ordered to close down Friday night.
In the United States, the Trump administration announced the effective closure of its borders with Canada and Mexico and invoked a federal law to get emergency medical supplies to front-line health care workers and the private sector mobilized to combat the pandemic.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games may have to be postponed if the event cannot take place “in a complete way” due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a telephone conversation with Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday to discuss regional cooperation to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
LONDON - Countries can't simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert said on Sunday, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on.
චීනයේ ධනවත්ම මිනිසා වන, ’අලි බබා’ නැමැති අන්තර්ජාල අලෙවිකරණ සමාගමේ නිර්මාතෘ ’ජැක් මා විසින් කොරෝනා වයිරසයට එරෙහිව සටන් කිරීම සඳහා ’ශ්රී ලංකාව’ ඇතුළු ආසියානු රටවල් කිහිපයකට, මුහුණු ආවරණ මිලියන 1.8ක් සහ කොරොන වයිරස් ’පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල’ 210,000ක් ලබා දීමට කටයුතු යොදනු ලැබ තිබේ.
කෝවිඩ් 19 හෙවත් නව කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය හේතුවෙන් යළි පැමිණීමට නොහැකිව අපහසුතාවට පත්වී සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකිකයින් සඳහා සුදුසු පරිදි වීසා කාලය දීර්ඝ කරන්නැයි ශ්රී ලංකාව, විදෙස් රාජ්‍යන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කර තිබෙනවා.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - It was Thursday morning, and my phone buzzed with a text message from South Korea’s emergency alert system, as it has hundreds of times during the coronavirus outbreak.
Higher Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane said Sri Lanka would receive another US$ 700 million in May as a concessionary loan from China Development Bank .
Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has requested foreign governments to facilitate the appropriate extension of visas for Sri Lankans currently visiting their countries, and facing difficulty to return to Sri Lanka.
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