Ninety four persons have died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the Director General of Health Services confirmed.
This increases the total death count from the virus to 4821. Out of the deceased 49 were males and 45 were females. Majority of the deaths were those over 60 years of age.
State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Professor Channa Jayasumana told Parliament yesterday the government may consider importing oxygen from Singapore and India if COVID patients depending on oxygen increase rapidly.
Ranil Wickremesinghe also highlighted the need to go for immediate purchase of vaccines and oxygen as well as get the support from Army and engineering companies to convert field hospitals as COVID treatment centres.
Meanwhile another consignment of 2.14 million Sinopharm vaccines will arrive in the country today.
“Despite huge domestic demand increased due to a new surge of COVID and children vaccination started, #China keeps its commitment to deliver 4 million #Sinopharm doses to #SriLanka as scheduled,” the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka tweeted.
Sri Lanka is to receive another 1.86 million Sinopharm vaccines on Sunday(08).
A Thai woman walking topless in Arugam Bay town has been arrested by the Police.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
The Cabinet has approved a proposal for Sri Lankans overseas to apply for their passports through an online system via the Lankan diplomatic missions.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
A passenger attempting to smuggle the largest quantity of gold of 35 kilo grams was arrested by the Customs at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) today, a senior official said.
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