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15th April 2021 16:23:33 Hours
As of this morning (15), a total of 117 more persons were confirmed positive to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 18 Sri Lankan expatriates and 99 of those positive cases are locally-identified ones, including the majority 26 from Jaffna District, 21 from Colombo District, 19 from Nuwaraeliya and 33 others from different Districts, states the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).
09th April 2021 07:48:20 Hours
Australia-domiciled President’s Counsel and the former Public Trustee of Sri Lanka, Mr Sanath Weeratne, full of praise and admiration for “well-structured COVID-19 health work in Sri Lanka and efficient and organized Officers of the Army with great professionalism, grace and common courtesy equally to all” in a message conveyed to the Commander of the Army, General Shavendra Silva opines that “he is proud as a Sri Lankan to state that systems in his residential country, in his personal opinion, do not seem to have such a streamlined or well-structured system in place as we do here in Sri Lanka at the moment.”
08th April 2021 16:25:21 Hours
As of this morning (8), a total of 221 more persons were confirmed positive to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 31 Sri Lankan expatriates and 190 of those positive cases are locally-identified ones, including the majority 54 from Colombo District, 46 from Jaffna district, 29 from Rathnapura district and 61 others from different districts, states the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).
17th March 2021 07:54:44 Hours
General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff, Commander of the Army and Head, NOCPCO during one more Task Force meeting at the NOCPCO said that although there records a marked drop in detection of new COVID-19 cases, there are still a few clusters that have been reported from Kandy, Morawaka and Katunayake areas after patients coming to hospitals are exposed to PCR tests.
04th March 2021 11:07:28 Hours
"The strategic control measures, quarantine procedures and other preventive restrictions that were closely adopted enabled all of us to bring the numbers of infected ones down on par with current world trends that went parallel with the introduction of the vaccine world-wide. The drop in numbers is due to social distancing, restrictions imposed and timely adopted measures", so said General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff, Commander of the Army and Head, National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID 19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) addressing the routine Task Force meeting of the NOCPCO held on this evening (2).
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16th December 2020 16:31:03 Hours
Hon (Dr) Sudarshani Fernandopulle, the State Minister of Primary Health Services, Control of Epidemics and COVID-19, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army and Dr Asela Gunawardena, Medical Specialist & Director General of Health Services (DGHS) this afternoon (15) at the NOCPCO co-chaired one more session of the NOCPCO Task Force, attended by all members and experts in the field.
