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The COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. The first case of the virus in Sri Lanka was confirmed on 27 January 2020, after a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei , China , was admitted to ...
DHL deployed its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Team to the disaster areas to provide on-the-ground logistics support to assist with the relief effort in the aftermath of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan. Three rotating teams made up of volunteer employees from the Asia Pacific region were based at the Mactan Cebu Airport on Cebu island ...
Color coded map of Eastern Visayas showing the number of deaths caused by Typhoon Haiyan. More than 1,000 500-999 100-499 50-99 25-49 1-24 0. Condemnations of slow government action in the relief effort in response to the typhoon mounted days after the storm had passed.
August 15–19 55 (35) 996 Japan, China None None Erin: August 15–18 75 (45) 1006 Cape Verde: Minimal None Trami (Maring) August 16–24 110 (70) 965 Philippines Taiwan, Japan, China $598 million 34 Pewa: August 16–26 100 (65) 990 None None None Unala: August 19 65 (40) 1000 None None None Three-C: August 19–20 55 (35) 1008 None None None ...
Six hours later, the JTWC estimated Haiyan to have attained one-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (88 m/s; 196 mph) and gusts up to 378 km/h (105 m/s; 235 mph). [19] This officially ties Haiyan with Typhoon Meranti in 2016 as the fifth-strongest tropical cyclone on record in terms of wind speed, only exceeded by Typhoon Ida (325 km/h) in 1958 ...
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human ...
Thus far, DART has treated 5,800 patients and produced more than 2.5 million litres of purified water. They have also helped repair schools, clear rubble, build temporary shelters and repair fishing boats and water mains in Sri Lanka. The lack of an immediate response by what was supposed to be a rapid-response unit aroused significant criticism.
The party may be over for thousands of Russian tourists who moved to Sri Lanka amid the war in Ukraine.. Authorities in the South Asian island nation said this week they were canceling long-term ...