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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 ...
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 ...
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.
In May 2020, Sri Lanka was ranked the 9th best country in the world for its successful response in tackling the virus; however, Sri Lanka was also ranked the 16th most vulnerable country to COVID-19. [77] In May 2021, Sri Lanka started its vaccination program with the Oxford–AstraZeneca and Sinopharm BIBP vaccines and Sputnik V.
By July, Sri Lanka had received 10.7 million doses of the vaccine. [1] In June, local studies in the country showed vaccination with the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine generated seroconversion and antibody responses in individuals to Delta and Beta variants similar to antibody levels seen following a natural infection [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
Sri Lanka’s batting collapsed twice in the game and, if not for Dhananjaya de Silva’s 122 and 82, its batting would have fared much worse. Sri Lanka’s seamers were ineffective while the ...
The coast of China sees the most landfalling tropical cyclones worldwide. [19] The Philippines receives an average of 6–7 tropical cyclone landfalls per year, [20] with typhoons Haiyan and Goni in 2013 and 2020 being the strongest and most powerful landfalling storms to date. [21]