Two more unidentified bodies have been found off the Wellawatta beach today (05).
The identities of these bodies are yet to be determined, Police said. Investigations are underway.
Earlier this morning, an unidentified body was discovered off the Payagala beach.
MIAP
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is not a showoff but a political party that adds value to the country, said Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa, speaking to the occasion of the Gampaha District Divulapitiya Electoral Board of the SJB yesterday (04).
Pointing out that the government relies on superstitions, the Opposition Leader noted, reminding that the government ridiculed the Opposition when it pointed out the scientific facts.
Despite the government being informed on multiple occasions to bring the Covid vaccine to the country, the government was running after superstitions and the country still has to suffer its outcome, Premadasa added.
The Opposition Leader went on that there are many parts to the concept of development and that some alternative groups are criticising the SJB’s programme for development based on only one part of it.
Cases were being lodged against certain parties at will during the Good Governance Regime and their falsehoods are being proven today in the event that all of whom had been prosecuted are being acquitted, said former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, speaking to media in Colombo today (05).
Accordingly, the fabricated images depicted back then are now being cleared out, he noted.
Claiming that several parties in the Good Governance Regime had harassed him and a number of others as well, Karunanayake added that despite the charge against him on the Bond affair, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) was under the scope of Ranil Wickremesinghe and that the commercials banks were under Kabir Hashim.
The truth was concealed by media, he alleged.
The two-year total compiled by Johns Hopkins University comes less than two months after eclipsing 800,000 deaths
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious Omicron variant, the US death toll from Covid-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.
The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina.
The milestone comes more than 13 months into a vaccination drive that has been beset by misinformation and political and legal strife, though the shots have proved safe and highly effective at preventing serious illness and death.
Despite its wealth and world-class medical institutions, the US has the highest reported toll of any country and even then, the real number of lives lost directly or indirectly to the coronavirus is thought to be significantly higher.
“It is an astronomically high number. If you had told most Americans two years ago as this pandemic was getting going that 900,000 Americans would die over the next few years, I think most people would not have believed it,” said Dr Ashish K Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
He lamented that most of the deaths had happened after the vaccine gained authorization.
“We got the medical science right. We failed on the social science. We failed on how to help people get vaccinated, to combat disinformation, to not politicize this,” Jha said.
“Those are the places where we have failed as America.”
Just 64% of the population is fully vaccinated, or about 212 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Nor is Covid-19 finished with the United States: Jha said the US could reach 1 million deaths by April.
Among the dead is Susan Glister-Berg, 53, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, whose children had to take her off a ventilator just before Thanksgiving, after Covid-19 ravaged her lungs and kidneys.
“She’s always cared more about people than she did herself. She always took care of everyone,” said a daughter, Hali Fortuna. “That’s how we all describe her: she cared for everyone. Very selfless.”
Glister-Berg, a smoker, was in poor health, and was apparently unvaccinated, according to her daughter. Fortuna just got the booster herself.
“We all want it to go away. I personally don’t see it going away anytime soon,” she said. “I guess it’s about learning to live with it and hoping we all learn to take care of each other better.”
The toll came as Omicron is loosening its grip on the country.
New cases per day have plunged by almost half since mid-January, when they hit a record-shattering peak of more than 800,000. Cases have been declining in 49 out of 50 states in the last two weeks, by Johns Hopkins’ count, and the 50th state, Maine, reported that confirmed infections were falling there, too, dropping sharply over the past week.
The number of Americans in the hospital with Covid-19 has declined 15% since mid-January to about 124,000.
Deaths are still running high at more than 2,400 per day on average, the most since last winter. And they are on the rise in at least 35 states, reflecting the lag time between when victims become infected and when they succumb.
Still, public health officials have expressed hope that the worst of Omicron is coming to an end. While they caution that things could still go bad again and dangerous new variants could emerge, some places are already talking about easing precautions. Los Angeles County may end outdoor mask requirements in a few weeks, Public Health Director Dr Barbara Ferrer said Thursday.
“Post-surge does not imply that the pandemic is over or that transmission is low or that there will not be unpredictable waves of surges in the future,” she warned.
Experts believe some Covid-19 deaths have been misattributed to other conditions. And some Americans are thought to have died of chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes because they were unable or unwilling to obtain treatment during the crisis.
The Rev Gina Anderson-Cloud, senior pastor of Fredericksburg United Methodist Church in Virginia, lost her dementia-stricken father after he was hospitalized for cancer surgery and then isolated in a Covid-19 ward. He went into cardiac arrest, was revived, but died about a week later.
She had planned to be by his bedside, but the rules barred her from going to the hospital.
“I think it’s important for us not to be numbed. Each one of those numbers is someone,” she said of the death toll. “Those are mothers, fathers, children, our elders.”
The death toll reached 800,000 on 14 December. It took just 51 more days to get to 900,000, the fastest increase of 100,000 since last winter.
“We have underestimated our enemy here, and we have under-prepared to protect ourselves,” said Dr Joshua M Sharfstein, a public health professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “We’ve learned a tremendous amount of humility in the face of a lethal and contagious respiratory virus.”
Jha said he and other medical professionals are frustrated that policymakers are seemingly running out of ideas for getting people to roll up their sleeves.
“There aren’t a whole lot of tools left. We need to double down and come up with new ones,” he said.
Covid-19 has become one of the top three causes of death in America, behind the big two – heart disease and cancer.
“We have been fighting among ourselves about tools that actually do save lives. Just the sheer amount of politics and misinformation around vaccines, which are remarkably effective and safe, is staggering,” Sharfstein said.
He added: “This is the consequence.”
Another Conservative MP has called for Boris Johnson to resign as the turmoil at 10 Downing Street continues.
Former minister Nick Gibb is the latest Tory to submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.
He said his constituents were furious that No 10 had been “flagrantly disregarding” the Covid rules they set.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports a photograph of Mr Johnson holding a beer at a birthday gathering has been handed to police investigating Covid breaches.
The paper said the picture is one of 300 submitted to the Metropolitan Police investigation into 12 alleged gatherings and is thought to have been taken by the PM’s official photographer, who is funded by the taxpayer.
It says it shows the prime minister holding a can of beer at an event in No 10’s Cabinet Room in June 2020, alongside Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who was holding a soft drink.
At the time, gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law.
It comes at the end of a difficult week for the PM which has seen five No 10 aides resign and the publication of the initial findings of the Sue Gray reportinto events at Downing Street while Covid restrictions were in place.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Gibb, who has served under three prime ministers and who lost his position as schools minister in Boris Johnson’s reshuffle last September, said his constituents were “furious about the double standards” and that “to restore trust, we need to change the prime minister”.
He said Covid restrictions imposed by Boris Johnson were “flagrantly disregarded” in Downing Street, and the PM was inaccurate when, in December, he told the House of Commons there was no party.
“Some argue that eating a few canapes with a glass of prosecco is hardly a reason to resign. But telling the truth matters, and nowhere more so than in the House of Commons where, like a court of law, truth must be told regardless of the personal consequences,” he wrote.
Mr Gibb said fellow backbench Tory Aaron Bell had “struck a chord” when he criticised Mr Johnson over lockdown parties earlier this week.
BBC
World’s most famous fashion designer and writer, Crisda Rodriguez, wrote this article before she passed away from cancer.
1. I had the world’s costly car in my home but now I am in a hospital wheelchair.
2. My house is full of all kinds of costly designers things, branded clothing, branded and valuables. But my body is wrapped in a small sheet & thin sheet of cloth provided by the hospital as for all paitents.
3. There is huge money in the bank. But now I’m not getting a small benefiting from that money.
4. My house is like a palace but with a great comfortable bed but I’m laying in a double size bed in a hospital.
5. I can go from latest five star hotel to another five star hotel. But now I’m spending time moving from lab to lab in hospital 5his is the condition of my life.
6. I signed hundreds of people. Doctor’s note today is my signature.
7. I had seven costly jewelry to decorate my hair – now I don’t have hair on my head because of illness.
8. I have lot of money,I can go or visit anywhere by a private jet whenever I would like but now my condition is not like that to go and enjoy.
9. Although there are many foods, but my diet has two tablets a day and a few drops of salt at night.
This house, this car, this jet, this furniture, so many bank accounts, so much reputation and fame, none of them are useful.
None of these costly things or a lot of money in my different accounts could give me a light relief for 5 minutes or to save me from this dangerous desease.
The real life is about entertaining many people and making them smile ′′ nothing is real but death ′′ Life is so short…
“Life is so short”
Think – Observer & Research your life
Conclusion :-
Above real Words of World’s most famous fashion designer and writer, Crisda Rodriguez, wrote this article before she passed away from cancer. At the end all things, huge money in different accounts, worlds costly cars, very costly house, furniture all these are are nothing in front of health as we everyone knows “Health is wealth”.So be happy, healthy, and having humanity.
Minister of State Arundika Fernando resigned from his post recently in connection with the attack on a group of students at the Ragama Medical Faculty.
Sources say that he has resigned from the post following an order issued by the President.
However, the President has asked Arundika Fernando to resign not only due to the incident in connection with the incident at the Ragama Medical Faculty but also due to the incident where a notorious ethanol smuggler was brought to Sri Lanka from a foreign country and facilitated to be released on bail. The court had issued a warrant for this ethanol smuggler’s arrest.
Following the President’s order, Arundika Fernando immediately went to meet Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sources said that he had cried and expressed his grief to the Prime Minister and appealed to him to save him.
But Arundika eventually had to resign after the Prime Minister refused to intervene.
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris is scheduled to pay a two-day official visit to India.
Accordingly, he is scheduled to leave for India tomorrow (06).
During his visit, Peiris is scheduled to meet with the Prime Minister of India, the Minister of External Affairs of India, and other senior members of the Government of India.
The Ministry of Health states that 1243 covid infected people were identified in the country yesterday (04).
Accordingly, the total number of covid infections identified so far in the country has increased to 615,902.
Another 29 covid deaths were announced yesterday, bringing the total number of confirmed covid deaths in the country to 15,544.
The chart below shows a steady increase in the number of daily covid infections, over the past two weeks.
Health officials are urging the public to follow the health guidelines to control the spread of covid, which has emerged in the face of the Omicron variant.
Janaka Rathnayake, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has stated that the power cut which took place on the day before yesterday(03) was a sabotage operation and that action has already been taken against the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB).
“Arbitrary power cuts without our permission is against the Electricity Act and the Public Utilities Act. Accordingly, we will take all necessary legal action to ensure that this situation does not arise in the future. According to the data, the power consumption is very low on the night of the 3rd. We can see from that data that there was a good chance to go without a power cut that day. There is sabotage here. When we inquired about this from the CEB, even the General Manager was not aware that there was a power cut. From today, we will begin discussions with our lawyers to work through the law. We will decide on this before Monday and what will be done about it. ”
The Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission Janaka Ratnayake stated this in response to a media query yesterday (04).
