International Affairs

In a step to repatriate foreign nationals from Pakistan and bring back countrymen stranded abroad, Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday allowed Sri Lanka and South Africa to operate special flights to the country, ARY News reported.

Diplomats based in Colombo were today briefed by the Government on ongoing efforts to assist the public affected by the coronavirus.

මෙරට සෞඛ්‍ය සේවකයින් ආරක්ෂා කිරීම සඳහා උපකාරීවීමට සහ කොවිඞ් 19 වෛරසය ආසාදනයවීම හා එහි ව්‍යාප්තිය පාලනය කිරීමට සහයවීමක් වශයෙන් අමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 1.3 ක් වෙන්කිරීමට අමෙරිකානු රජය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

President Goatabaya Rajapaksa today thanked China for supporting Sri Lanka’s efforts in the fight against the coronavirus.

මළ සිරුරකින් කොවිඩ් -19 වෛරසය පුද්ගලයකුට සම්ප්‍රේෂණය වීම හා ඉන් මරණයක් සිදුවීමේ පළමු පුවත තායිලන්තයෙන් වාර්තා වේ.

The International Monetary Fund on Monday (13th April)announced that it will provide immediate debt service relief to 25 member countries under its Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust also known as CCRT, to allow these countries, to focus their scarce resources on fighting the coronavirus crisis

New Delhi/Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged Fox News report that the novel coronavirus (nCoV) may have been accidentally leaked by an intern working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

මාස 6ක කාලයක් අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගේ සහ රජයේ ආයතනවල ප්‍රධාන විධායක නිලධාරීවරුන්ගේ වැටුප් කපා දැමීමට නවසීලන්තය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

India’s grinding lockdown, which has already led to economic disruption and social distress, has been extended until May 03.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to review the current funding program provided to Sri Lanka.

Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka continued a war of words on twitter with those who questioned the Chinese Government on several issues.

Measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus can only be lifted slowly, if the right public health measures are in place, including significant capacity for contact tracing, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.

WHITE HOUSE - Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government has a three-stage prescription for restarting normal life in America.

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. funding to the World Health Organization is being halted by President Donald Trump, who blames it for creating "a 20-fold increase" in COVID-19 cases worldwide.

පුද්ගලයින් ලක්ෂ දෙකකට අධික පිරිසකට මරු කැඳවමින් ලොවපුරා ව්‍යාප්ත වූ සුකර උණට වඩා කොරෝනා වෛරසය මාරාන්තික බවත් මෙම වසංගතය නැවැත්වීමට අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ඒ සඳහා එන්නතක් සොයා ගැනීම අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය කරුණක් වී ඇති බවට ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය පවසනවා.

Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested the President of the United States of America (US) Donald Trump to reconsider his decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), which could have a detrimental impact on the programs in countries like Sri Lanka.

WASHINGTON - India, France and Nigeria are among several countries whose leaders are extending lockdowns aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases worldwide approaches 2 million.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released from a London hospital Sunday after being treated in intensive care for the novel coronavirus.