SriLankan Airlines has been awarded the Platinum Standard status by APEX Health Safety powered by SimpliFlying following a full independent audit for our efforts in ensuring the highest standards for passenger safety and wellbeing during air travel, post-Covid.
This status recognizes airlines t
SriLankan Airlines has been awarded the Platinum Standard status by APEX Health Safety powered by SimpliFlying following a full independent audit for our efforts in ensuring the highest standards for passenger safety and wellbeing during air travel, post-Covid, the company in a release said.This status recognizes airlines that go above and beyond minimum standards required to
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COLOMBO (News1st): A new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in a patient identified in Sri Lanka, the Department of Immunology and Molecular Sciences at the University of Sri Jayawardenapura said.
“We tested the samples that came to us in the past month and detected a mutation quite similar to the variant found in the UK,” Professor Chandima Jeewandara, the director of operations at the department noted.
Meanwhile, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) also raised questions on the possibility of people entering the country while being infected by the new variant.
“Even though this new strain has less complications, a large number of people could be infected by the virus,” GMOA spokesman Dr Samantha Ananda noted.
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The COVID-19 virus is severely challenging the credibility of the Education Ministry. This was underscored when the Ministry, amidst the ongoing second wave, announced the re-opening of all schools, from grade six upwards, except those in the Western Province and other isolated areas from November 23 onwards. It has been since decided to reopen primary schools from January 11, 2021 onwards.
Neither teachers’ trade unions nor parents responded well to this announcement to reopen schools in November. North Western Province Governor Raja Collure too decided that schools in high risk areas of his province would remain closed for a further week. A number of teachers’ unions warned that the worst-case scenario would be a “school cluster”.