Covid death figures reported today 27.09.2021

The Country Director of Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management (A-PAD), Mr Firzan Hashim, giving an enhanced helping hand to the ongoing Sri Lanka Medical Association-National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak-combined Home-Management System for COVID-19 affectees through Helpline 1904 and Doc Call 247, through which the public are able to communicate their health conditions directly to doctors, Friday (24) afternoon donated a stock of 300 pulse oximeters to General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army for distribution among needy patients under treatment in their own homes or elsewhere.

South African Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Dr. Naledi Pandor received Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris at the Permanent Mission of South Africa in New York, on Friday 24 September 2021, for a bilateral meeting, on the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Foreign Minister was accompanied by Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage.

Foreign Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris and British Minister of State for South Asia, United Nations and the Commonwealth Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon had discussions recently at the Sri Lanka Mission in New York.