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From September 15 onwards, one must be in possession of a vaccination card to prove that one is fully vaccinated, to enter public places, authorities said on Friday. Army Commander General Shavendra Silva speaking to the media said this measure would come into effect from 15th of September, and people entering public places from that day onwards would require to …

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The Dengue virus and the virus that causes COVID-19 can generate similar symptoms, Dr. Indika Weerasinghe of the Health Ministry’s National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) said.He urged people to  seek medical assistance immediately when these symptoms are felt without opting to stay at home.Speaking to media, he said the symptoms such as fever, muscle or body aches are common in …

BBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL) Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.Be warned, our dear countrymen and women. The die is cast…, well and truly. In addition to all our woes in this resplendent isle, as far as COVID-19 goes, things are getting …

COVID 19 At this time where a number of new varieties of the virus are spreading worldwide, young personnel in many countries are increasingly getting sick. The situation observed in Sri Lanka in the past few days is similar to this.Additionally, another trend of reporting serious respiratory difficulties and having to be admitted into intensive care units for a significant …

කොවිඩ් 19 නව රැල්ල – තරුණ තරුණියන්යින් පවා දැඩි අවදානමක?කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසයේ නව ප්‍රභේද ගණනාවක් ලොව පුරා ව්‍යාප්ත වෙමින් පවතින මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී, බොහෝ රටවල තරුණ පිරිස් වැඩි වැඩියෙන් රෝගාතුර වීමේ ප්‍රවණතාවයක් දක්නට ලැබෙනවා. ලංකාව තුළ ද පසුගිය දවස් කිහිපය තුළ නිරීක්ෂණය කරන ලද තත්ත්වය මේ හා සමානයි.මෙයට අමතරව, දැනට රෝහල්ගතව ප්‍රතිකාර ලබන රෝගීන්ගෙන් සැලකිය යුතු සංඛ්‍යාවකට බරපතළ ශ්වසන අපහසුතා …