Over the last few weeks we noticed a number of posts on social media streams in Sri Lanka targeting the minority community with posts related to COVID19. Some of these posts were misleading and we debunked several such stories such as a year old procession in Beruwala misinterpreted as recent and an incident related to […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect global populations and the world economy while citizens remain under a lockdown for safety reasons. Gathering has proved to be deadly as the healthcare crisis takes more lives around the world each day. The Indian health ministry website as of 21st April 2020, tells us that 18,601 people in […]
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While some countries and regions are considering some form of cessation to the prevailing lockdown situation, World Health Organization has advised them to be extremely cautious in taking such actions. Due to the curtailment of human activities, pollution has vastly reduced and air quality levels have improved enormously in a number of cities around the […]
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COVID-19 pandemic still grows unabated in more than 200 countries across the globe compelling governments to impose strict restrictions on its citizens like lockdown. In some countries like Sri Lanka the lockdown has been imposed as a curfew, preventing citizens from moving about and gathering together and nearly 2000 violators have been arrested to date. […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic that was first discovered during the latter part of 2019 has reached unimaginable proportions with over 2 million people affected around the world as per the latest reports. With this many people infected and many countries and regions experiencing some form of a lockdown, a sense of panic and fear has engulfed […]
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As COVID19 continues to wreak havoc around the world with Europe and USA being the worst affected, citizens across the world have been confined to their homes due to lockdowns and curfews. These lockdowns have been imposed by respective governments’ in order to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. As soon as the coronavirus lockdowns […]
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As Covid-19 patients were being detected from different regions of Sri Lanka towards end of March 2020, health officials urged the government to take firm action to combat the spread of the virus. The government acted swiftly by addressing infrastructure issues as well as safety and medical equipment requirements to minimize the spread of the […]
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The COVID-19 crisis is inflicting unprecedented amount of suffering around the world with nearly 80,000 dead and a total of 1.35 million infected with the virus as on 8th April 2020 according to the WHO dashboard, setup to monitor the global situation. With the number of dead mounting and special requests to cremate all dead […]
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Amidst COVID19 outbreak government has requested service sector including telecommunication service providers to voice and data offers during this global crisis. In response to that request all operators had agreed to have a mechanism to provide emergency credit and extra talk time for prepaid customers who may face difficulty in purchasing top-ups due to curfew […]
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The COVID-19 lockdown has been grueling for several people. While the lockdowns and curfews imposed are for the purpose of public safety during the rapid spread of COVID-19, however it has created several complications on a section of the national population. For instance, freelancers, daily wage earners, taxi drivers, labourers etc are all left without […]
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