Disregarding average market prices, PCR testing kits had been bought from a bidder who quoted a higher price at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus causing a financial loss of more than Rs. 125 million, the Auditor General’s 2020 Report has revealed.
The United National Party (UNP) has denounced the formation of the Presidential Task Force appointed to study the implementation of the “One Country, One Law” concept, calling it a 'ridiculous move' by the President to remove this topic from the purview of the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General without discussing it in the Cabinet first.
The Government of Canada (Global Affairs Canada) has announced a USD 1.3 million grant for immediate assistance on COVID-19 as well as longer term strengthening of primary health care through WHO Sri Lanka.
The President of the College of Medical Laboratory Science (CMLS), Ravi Kumudesh claims that a number of private PCR testing laboratories have been allowed to set up in the car park of the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Diana Gamage has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order declaring the party's decision to expel her from the SJB null and void.
Sri Lankan bishops have urged the government to abandon its "one country, one law" plan for the predominantly Buddhist nation and instead draft a new constitution.
Concerns have been raised on the quality of PCR tests at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and the inconvenience faced by passengers travelling to the Middle East.
Quoting the 'Vaseththa Sutta,' former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said that Buddhists in particular can never be racists.
The Muslim community in Sri Lanka is said to be disheartened by reports that Justice Minister Ali Sabry had been made aware of the impending appointment of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, as Chairman of the Presidential Task Force to implement the ‘One Country, One Law' policy.
Mothers of victims of enforced dissapearances in Sri Lanka have launched a protest in the North calling for an international intervention by way of an International War Crimes
