A video has gone viral on social media with a narrative that Chinese officials are shooting people infected with Corona Virus. The video has four different visuals, starting with a group of police officers wielding guns walking into a locality. In the next visual, you can hear gunshots fired at a distance while a woman […]
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Mecca is Islam’s holiest city and is believed to be the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. Millions of Muslims throng to the holy city every year for Hajj, the annual pilgrimage. Dating from the 7th century, the central Masjid al-Haram (Sacred Mosque) surrounds the Kaaba, the cloth-covered cubic structure that’s Islam’s most sacred shrine. On […]
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The WHO has declared the Novel Coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. In Sri Lanka, there have been incidents in which the locals cornered Chinese nationals in the country on suspicion of Corona Virus infection. In this scenario, a girl recently returned from China visited a local hospital. This sent ripples across the country throwing […]
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As per the snapshots provided by the World Health Organization, the number of confirmed cases of novel Coronavirus is almost 25,000 with close to 500 deaths due to the deadly Coronavirus (2019-nCov). As recovery levels are now surpassing the number of deaths, China’s president Xi Jinping took to state TV on Wednesday (5th February) to […]
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A Chinese female tourist was detected as the first Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) affected person in Sri Lanka on January 27 while she was about to leave the country from the Bandaranaike International Airport. After being admitted to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) she recovered completely, as quoted by the Director General of Health […]
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2019-nCoV, a respiratory virus first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, on the eve of 2020 has now infected thousands of Chinese citizens and has spread to a number of other countries. The rapidly spreading virus, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms, has been declared as a global emergency with the death toll rising above 200. […]
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A doctor of the Senarathpura Rural Hospital in Gonagolla, Ampara was arrested by the police for sexually abusing four schoolgirls day before yesterday (07.01.2020). An image has been widely shared in a news article with an image of a person claimed to be the doctor, arrested on allegations of sexual abuse. Below is a screengrab […]
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There have been a number of cases in the recent past, where criminals used a small device installed to ATMs or POS machines in stores to steal debit/credit card credentials as the customers insert their cards into these devices. In this backdrop we noticed a message being shared by multiple Facebook users claiming that all […]
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Soon after the appointment of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, number of District Governors were appointed and as a result, there were widespread rumours that former Sri Lankan cricketing legend, who supported President in election campaign, would be appointed the Governor of Northern Province. One such post is given below. This post was shared multiple times on […]
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The last solar eclipse of 2019 occurred on 26th December. People in Sri Lanka, India and several other countries witnessed it and shared its photos on social media. This was an annular solar eclipse, which creates a “ring of fire” around sun. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth […]
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