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COVID19: How SLINTEC Is Rising To The Occasion

Within a short time, the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) has come up with a number of inventions which can help the country in its fight against #COVID19.

‘Donation Nation’: Collecting Funds For Vulnerable Communities

Donation Nation is a community service initiative that is seeking your kind contributions to provide relief packs of dry rations to low-income families of Sammanthranapura, Colombo 15.

Vega: From Supercars To Disinfection Chambers

Vega Innovations has come up with another new invention, this time to help prevent the spread of #COVID19

What Lies Beneath The Surface: Unseen And Untold COVID-19 Stories

During most crises, the effects felt are uneven. The COVID-19 pandemic has its fair share of consequences, both as a result of the crisis and the state’s response to it. While the lockdown has been a measure implemented to mitigate the threat of COVID-19, it has produced unintended consequences and circumstances that are yet to be addressed.

USJ Researchers Sequence COVID19 Genome

For the first time in Sri Lanka, scientists at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura have conducted a genome sequencing of the COVID-19 virus.

The Uncertain Wage: Plight Of Factory Workers In A COVID-19 Hit Economy

There are new taps installed in the guard room, with bars of soap on the side. A nurse monitors your temperature and you wipe your feet against a special mat, before you enter the premises. At the doorway is a separate chamber, where you are sprayed with disinfectant from head-to-toe. Promptly after, you punch-in on the fingerprint machine—like everyone else reporting for work—you are asked to sanitise your hands again.

COVID-19: Local Inventions To The Fore

Here are some ingenious inventions developed by Sri Lankans, to aid the fight against #COVID19

Gearing Up: Are We Prepared For A Protective Equipment Shortage?

It takes roughly 10 minutes to wear the entire ensemble; the complete outfit of any doctor or nurse tending to a patient who has contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It is cumbersome and confining. The outfit is also the primary protection for the health care workers who are at immediate risk of being infected themselves in this pandemic.

COVID-19: #TogetherWeCan

For nearly a month now, Sri Lanka has been in a state of curfew due to COVID-19. Many, especially the poor, have been hit hard. But fortunately, Sri Lankans never fail to look out for each other.

Seven COVID-19 WhatsApp Forwards You Wish You Had Checked Before Sharing

Online messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Viber, Signal, and Telegram have become pivotal sources of information in the digital age. While these platforms facilitate positive communication and create a sense of community, it is also a breeding ground for misinformation and disinformation that can cause confusion, at best, and physical harm or death, at worst.

New Year Under Lockdown: A Different Celebration This Year

For Osanda Samarasinghe (45), the highlight of April has been celebrating the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. He and his family would observe traditional nekath at the appropriate auspicious times, and before the New Year dawned, would shop for clothes and prepare and plan their finances for the upcoming year.

‘Self-Quarantine’: Preventing COVID-19 From Spreading In Sri Lanka

Ihthisham Lye (27) felt a pain in his throat the moment he stepped out of the airport, after returning from a business trip to Malaysia on March 4. He recognised the signs of oncoming fever. “My wife was worried because the antibiotics I took did not work,” he told Roar Media.

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