District Emergency Call Centers established to solve people’s problems during the travel restrictions.
A center has been established to deal with the problems faced by the people while travel restrictions are imposed. This centre is located at Temple Trees in conjunction with the Headquarters of the Presidential Task Force under the full supervision of the Secretary to the Prime Minister. The Director-General of Government Sculptures has announced that emergency call centres will be set up at the district level.
Sri lanka reported 29 deaths yesterday
Another 29 corona deaths are announced yesterday by the Government Information Department. At the same time, the total number of corona deaths in the country has risen to 921. Most of the deaths reported were due to corona pneumonia. This is also the highest number of corona deaths in the country in a single day.
Minister’s wife in queue for corona injection at Maligawatta
A picture of the wife of State Minister of Ports Jayantha Samaraweera queuing with the general public to receive the corona vaccine is being shared on social media. She is queuing at the vaccination center at the Maligawatta Sirisena Stadium.
The World Bank gave Rs. 16 billion to buy corona injection to Sri Lanka
The World Bank has approved $ 80.5 million for the purchase of the corona vaccine in Sri Lanka. The agreement between the World Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka was signed yesterday. The World Bank said in a statement that this was the second financial support for the Corona Emergency Response and Health System Preparation Project. The World Bank says the money will be used to buy vaccines and make them available to the public.
Sri Lanka had 3269 corona infections yesterday – worldometers
3269 corona infections were reported in Sri Lanka yesterday, according to the Worldometers website. Yesterday’s death toll was 24 and the number of infected people on the website the day before yesterday is 1429. According to the Government Information Department, 2249 people were infected yesterday and 2386 the day before yesterday.
Health official announces that the Kasbawa area cannot be saved,30% are infected.
The number of deaths due to corona infection is increasing rapidly in the Kesbewa Medical Officer of Health Division, said its Medical Officer of Health, Samanthika Wijesundera. She said there are currently two corona deaths a day in the area and will rise further next week. She says the current situation has created a difficult situation even though the district has been locked down.
Basil Rajapaksha did not have any illness to seek treatment – Namal Rajapaksha
Former Minister Basil Rajapaksa, the Chairman of the Presidential Special Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Alleviation,went abroad for personal reasons and will return to Sri Lanka within three weeks,Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa said. He said that Basil Rajapaksa was not ill for treatment and that he had not fallen ill when he met him yesterday and when he left the country.
The Mullivaikkal monument was demolished.
Residents of the Mullivaikkal area in Mullaittivu witnessed that a group of people had demolished a war memorial on the beach yesterday morning (May 13). They had gone to clean the Mullivaikkal War Memorial this year to mark the 12th anniversary of the end of the war. Then Mullaitivu Police have been informed about the incident. The lampposts at the Mulli Waikkal War Memorial had been severely damaged, residents said. Although the Mullivaikkal war commemoration was not held this time due to the prevailing covid risk, they had seen this unfortunate incident had taken place while cleaning the place they further said. They allied that law should be enforced immediately to find out the perpetrators of the act.
Is Brazils President guilty of Criminal Negligence over the VACCINE disaster?
“Pfizer got no response to offers to supply vaccine to Brazil last year because the President believed they could depend on the Chinese Vaccine” Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) repeatedly offered to sell its COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil’s Health Ministry between August and November last year, but got no answer from the government, Pfizer’s chief executive for Latin America told lawmakers on Thursday. A Senate commission is investigating whether President Jair Bolsonaro’s government mishandled the pandemic by failing to secure vaccines in time to curb a surge that has killed more than 430,000 Brazilians – the worst COVID-19 death toll outside the United States. Pfizer executive Carlos Murillo said that on Sept. 12 the company’s CEO sent a letter to Bolsonaro and others in his cabinet, including then-health minister Eduardo Pazuello, expressing interest in providing Brazil with vaccines. The letter went unanswered for two months, the parliamentary commission has established.Pazuello, who was replaced last month as criticism mounted over vaccination delays, failed to take Pfizer up on its offers last year because he believed Brazil should rely on British and Chinese vaccines produced in the country, two sources told Reuters. Production issues and bottlenecks in China have slowed local output of those vaccines. Just 11% of Brazilian adults have been fully vaccinated. Pazuello is due to testify before the commission on May 19.In his weekly live internet broadcast on Thursday, Bolsonaro said Brazil secured a better deal this year than what was offered by Pfizer earlier, citing legal and health uncertainties as the vaccine had yet to receive regulatory approval last year. The Brazilian government eventually negotiated with Pfizer for 100 million doses in a contract signed in March, with the first 1 million doses arriving in late April. Another lot of 628,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine landed in Brazil from Belgium on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said, adding that it has so far distributed 1.6 million doses of the shot in the national immunization program. Murillo said Pfizer is about to sign a contract for 100 million more doses for delivery to Brazil in the fourth quarter.
Ramazan day is today
Today is the day of Ramadan. Muslims celebrate it with great devotion and brotherhood. Ramadan begins with the sighting of the new moon after observing the fast of Ramadan. Muslims, who fast throughout the month of Ramadan, celebrate Ramadan after seeing the new moon of the month of Shawwal.