A Sri Lankan university student who had been studying in China was admitted to the Badulla Hospital yesterday after exhibiting symptoms consistent with those of the coronavirus.
The student had recently returned to the country in the wake of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in Wuhan, China.
She was taken to hospital via a "Suwaseriya" Ambulance with medics wearing special protective suits. She is now being kept in isolation at the hospital while tests are being conducted to ascertain if she is indeed infected with the coronavirus.
Pix by G. Krishanthan
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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