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LNP -University students to be given Pfizer vaccine as booster dose

2021-10-14 | Health

University students fully vaccinated with Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine will be given a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, says the Director-General of ...

LNP - Sri Lanka’s COVID vaccination figures grow further

2021-10-14 | Health

Sri Lanka has fully vaccinated 85 percent of its population aged above 20 years, according to Epidemiology Unit’s data. This amounts to 67.2 percent...

LNP - IMF lowers Sri Lanka’s outlook on persistent pandemic pressures

2021-10-14 | Health

Cites supply chain issues, higher prices make recovery difficult and uneven Advocates for aggressive vaccination to look past pandemic for durable re...

LNP - 10-30 % of total infected patients suffer from post-COVID symptoms

2021-10-14 | Health

Shedding light on post-COVID condition in Sri Lanka and control measures, a medical expert said at least 10 to 30% of total patients infected with COV...

LNP - COVID vaccine: University students too show reluctance

2021-10-13 | Health

There is still hesitancy shown by youth in getting COVID-19 vaccination and in particular, the university students have also been hesitant to get them...

LNP - Adults, women at excess risk for COVID re-infection: Latest research

2021-10-06 | Health

A latest foreign research highlighted that adults, women, immunocompromised individuals and those with prior hospitalization for COVID-19 are at exces...

LNP - Dengue stings amid COVID-19; similar symptoms a concern

2021-10-06 | Health

Amidst the threat of COVID-19 and the consequent lockdown, health authorities have sounded an alert on cases of dengue, which have started to emerge d...

LNP - Health Ministry deeply concerned about Long-COVID symptoms

2021-10-05 | Health

In the wake of what was revealed in a recent study on core long-COVID-19 symptoms, the Health ministry is compelled to pay a special attention on the ...

LNP - Convene ACCD to inoculate Pfizer for 16-19 age group healthy children: GMOA requests Health DG

2021-10-05 | Health

The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) requested the Health Services Director General to convene the Advisory Committee on Communicable D...

LNP - A record surgery on kidney stones sans full anaesthesia at Kalutara Teaching Hospital

2021-10-04 | Health

For the first time in Sri Lanka, the stone that occupied the entire kidney of a patient was removed in a surgery called ‘Mini PCNL (Percutaneous Nep...