A 54-year-old male from Colombo 12 and a 45-year-old male from Meegoda have died at the Infectious Diseases Hospital today (12) bringing the death toll from the virus to 48, the Director General of Health Services has confirmed.
Postmortems have revealed that one of the deceased has suffered from long-term respiratory illness and the other has died of pneumonia condition triggered by COVID-19.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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