Large amounts of waste had washed ashore the Mount Lavinia beach on Thursday while municipal authorities await till curfew is lifted to clean the coastline

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed to carry out PCR tests for COVID-19 on passengers at the airport upon arrival in the country and to direct them for quarantine

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a 13- member Presidential Task Force headed by the Defense Secretary Major General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne to build a secure country and a disciplined society

Sri Lanka’s election body has said it will decide the date for the parliamentary election on Monday, June 8, after discussing a set of health guidelines provided by the health ministry to conduct the poll

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases tally increased to 1,683 Tuesday with 40 more persons testing positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry reported

Sri Lanka reported its 11th COVID-19 death on Monday (June 1) morning

President of Public Health Inspectors’ Union of Sri Lanka MG Upul Rohana warned to take legal action against anyone who participated in the late Minister Arumugam Thondaman’s funeral, contracted COVID-19 and spreads the disease to the community nationally and internationally for violating the regulations of the Quarantine Act

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases total increased to 1,620 Saturday with 62 more persons testing positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry said

The number of COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka rose to 1548 after 18 people tested positive for the virus on Friday, the health ministry said

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appealed to bilateral and multilateral lenders to assist developing and middle-income countries such as Sri Lanka unconditionally focusing on human development to emerge from the COVID_19 fallout

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery has resumed exports after the island nation eased a two-month lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported on Friday

Sri Lanka Health Ministry on Friday blamed Kuwait for acting in violation of the World Health Organisation’s – International Health Regulations (IHR), by returning foreign nationals infected with COVID-19 back to their home countries

Sri Lankan authorities said the country will impose a nationwide curfew on selected days next week to avoid the unnecessary congregation of people after a sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases

With Sri Lanka easing lockdown measures in all districts even as the country’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise, a confused public is attempting to make sense of a plethora of new regulations

The Sri Lankan Health Ministry has issued a comprehensive set of guidelines focused on the "new normal" with timelines on when most activities can resume in the island nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic