Health Minister Issued A Gazette Allowing Burials For Corona Infected Bodies

 Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi had signed and issued a special Gazette notification last night(25) allowing the burial of a body of a person died due to Corona infection .Since.the Corona epidemic began in the Country only cremation has been allowed for Corona deaths .

However due to the pressure of some International organizations like UN Human Rights Council and neighbouring Pakistan Sri lankan government has decided to allow burial of A body of a Corona positive .However according to the Gazette Notification issues yesterday announcing this decision it says the Burial of a Corona positive body should  have taken place at a cemetery approved by the relevant authority under the instructions of Director General of health services .

Prioritize Over 60 Age Group When Implementing Corona Vaccination Programme -SLMA President

 President of Sri Lanka Medical Association(SLMA) Consultant Dr .Padma Gunaratna has made a written request from  the Director General Of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardana  to reverse the  Corona Vaccine enrollment as some health officials had taken an unapproved step to give  the vaccine for 30-60 year  age group instead  of over 60 year group .

Accordingly Dr Gunaratna has stressed that as 70 percent of the local Corona deaths are being occurred among over 60 age group the Corona vaccine enrollment should be prioritize for that group and the National Advisory Committee on Infectious diseases had also given approval for this last Januay .

'" Sri Lanka Medical Association had ovservefc observed last week that most of the Vaccination centers established for Corona Vaccination programme had prioritize giving the Corona vaccine for 30--60 age  group  and that is not approved by the advisory committee .As the global vaccine supply is limited we should manage to use the Corona vaccine doses carefully in a useful manner " she has stated .

500,000 Covishield Vaccines Had Been Airlifted From India

 Another 500,000 Doses of Oxford -AstraZeneca "Covishield "Anti Corona Vaccine had brought by Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Chennai ,India this evening (25)according to Health officials .

The consignment. Of Covishield vaccine doses which was manufactured at Serum institute in India had been airlifted to Sti lanka from.Chennai   it had been revealed .

This is a part of Covishield vaccines imported  from india by Government owned State Pharmaceuticals Corporation and they are due to be vaccinated  proritising persons over 60 years and those who are with co morbidities according to Health Ministry  .

India had donated 500,000 Doses of Covishield vaccines last month to Sri  lanka and upto now nearly 400,000 doses from it  had been vaccinated so far it has been revealed .

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පණ්ඩිතයන්ට ඒදන්ඩේ යාම අසීරුයි -කොරෝනා සමයේ පිස්සු නටන අයට එය හොඳටම අදාළයි

 "වර්තමානයේ ඇතැමෙකුට තිබෙන ලොකුම උමතුව නම් කොරෝනා වසංගත සමයේ
සංචාර ගියා .සුහද හමුවීම්  තිබ්බා ,ඒත් කොරෝනා හැදුනේ නැහැ කියමින් උදම් ඇනීම , -බටහිර රටවල් නායකයන් පවා අවදානමක් අරගෙන මෙවැනි ක්‍රියාකාරකම්වල යෙදීම සීමා කර තිබියදී එවැනි දේ අප කළා යනුවෙන් උදම් ඇනීම තරම් මෝඩ ක්‍රියාවක් තවත් නැති බව මෙම උන්මත්තකයන් නොදැන සිටීම් අභාග්‍යයක් .බලධාරීන් පිස්සු නටන විට ඔවුන්ගේ  ගොලයෝද එම තාලයට යාම එක අතකට පුදමයක් නොවේ ,ලෙඩේ හදා ගන්න උත්සාහ ගන්නවාට වඩා වැදගත් හදාගන්න එක වලක්වගන්න එක ,.අනේ මේ මිනිස්සු ඒ බව නොදන්න හැටි ,මෙතරම් හොඳට සෞඛ්‍ය පුරුදු අනුගමනය කරන වෛද්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩලවලටත් කොරෝනා ආසාදනය හැදෙන එකේ අනික් අය පරිස්සම් නොවුනහොත් ඔවුන්ට අත් වන ඉරණම ගැන කවර කථාද ? 

කොහොමත් අනික් අයව කපන්න හදන  ,පහළට දාලා කථා කරන අය හා ඔවුන්ගේ පවුල්වල අයට ලෙඩ හැදෙනවා අඩුයි තමයි ,දේවදත්තටත් ඉහෙන් බහින ලෙඩක් තිබුණේ නැති බව අමතක නොකළ යුතුයි

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458 Corona Positives Reported Yesterday (24)

 A total of 458 Corona Positives had been reported yesterday (24)increasing the total number of Corona positives reported so far in the country to 81,467 according to National Covid -19 Prevention Center. 

Accordingly these positives were Contacts of former Corona positives  reported from several Corona clusters in the country  the Center  has stated .

At the moment 4426 Corona Positives are being treated at Government hospitals and treatment centers .