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Sri Lanka failed to carry out vital genome sequencing to identify current Covid-19 strains spreading in the island in December because of intervening holidays, the head of microbiology at the Sri Jayewardenapura University Neelika Malavige said. She said, however, there was no evidence yet of a new and more transmissible variant found in Britain and South Africa entering Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka carried out genome sequencing till the end of November, but any mutation in the December viruses could not be identified because of holidays, she said during a webinar organised by the Sri Lanka College of Community Physicians this week. ....
The government has held several rounds of discussions with countries where big-time Sri Lankan narcotics ringleaders live, and also issued 18 ‘red notices’ through Interpol to arrest the drug lords evading justice, Defence Secretary Gen. (Retd.) Kamal Gunaratne said. “We will ensure that there is no longer room for them to run drug operations from overseas”, he stressed. “We are optimistic of having these fugitives rounded up this year”, he told the media in Colombo last week. He said that necessary steps have been taken to thwart any form of separatism and extremism in the country. “We have weekly discussions on these issues which also cover underworld activities”, he noted. Responding to a question from the media he assured that nobody would be allowed to take up arms. The Defence Secretary said that remand prisoners involved in large-scale drug rings will not be released due to space constraints and the spread of coronavirus in prisons. ....
A total 273 Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses overhauled at a cost of Rs. 115 million were reintroduced for passenger transport at a ceremony under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at Galle Face Green on Thursday. The buses were earlier taken out of service as they were in a run-down condition, but were […] ....
Behind The Muslim Burial Issue Dr. Ameer Ali In no country in the world except Sri Lanka and perhaps its “predator” ally China that Muslims are cremated when they die because of Covid-19; and no epidemiologist, virologist or medical expert in the world except the chief health officer in Sri Lanka believes that Corona virus would spread if the victims are buried. This officer spuriously justified his stand on the ground that the underground water level in the country is too high. His argument, backed by a so-called soil scientist, Meththika Vithanage from Jayawardenapura University, who wrote, “break the ground and infect us all”, has now been accepted as heavenly truth by sections of local Buddhist clergy, members of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Viyathmaga and Rajapaksa’s government. Allowing burial for Muslims is to bury the regime itself, said one such monk. No amount of appeal or protest from any Muslim group either locally or internationally, and not even advice fr ....
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