COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan health officials said on Saturday that more than half of the health workers and frontline military and police officers have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19.

On April 20, a 76-year-old man from Neerveli village, in northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna district, died after he was found to be infected with COVID-19 at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital. The bodies of ...

A quarter of households in Sri Lanka are headed by women, yet there is no comprehensive national strategy to address their needs, particularly during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lanka suffered a blow ahead of the second test against Australia when three more players were ruled out on Thursday after contracting COVID-19.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka extended its lockdown for another week, amid a surge of coronavirus deaths in recent weeks. Sri Lanka is under a nearly three-week lockdown, scheduled to end on ...

5. Sri Lanka Thousands of protesters have stormed the homes of Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister in recent days in fury over the nation’s crippling economic crisis.

China on Saturday reported 16 new confirmed coronavirus cases including two authorities said were believed to have been acquired locally. The two locally transmitted cases were in Guangdong ...

Sri Lanka extended its lockdown for another week, amid a surge of coronavirus deaths in recent weeks. Sri Lanka is under a nearly three-week lockdown, scheduled to end on June 14.

Doctors and health workers have urged the government to keep the existing travel ban to contain the spreading of the coronavirus. Sri Lanka’s total confirmed cases have reached 216,134. ___ ...