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Sudath Samaraweera: Community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/11/2020)
FALSE: “If positive cases are reported without the origin, then it can be identified as a community transmission. In other words, community transmission takes place when cases are reported with no connection to the existing ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/26/2020)
TRUE: We have to pay close to USD 400 million a month in [foreign] debt.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Lankadeepa, 12 October 2020
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)
FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture.
- Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020
National Freedom Front: Auditor General's duties under 20A
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
TRUE: The provision under which companies registered under the Registrar of Companies and of which the government is the majority shareholder, have been removed from the audit process of the Auditor General [in the proposed ...
Udaya Gammanpila: National anthem in Tamil
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/30/2020)
FALSE: [According to Article 7 of the constitution] Sri Lanka's national anthem is "Sri Lanka Maatha"… if anything other than the words of "Sri Lanka Maatha" contained in the third schedule is considered to be the national ...
Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.”
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020
Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others ...
Rajitha Senaratne: Malaria Elimination
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/12/2020)
In 2016, I eliminated Malaria from Sri Lanka.
- Rajitha Senaratne, Divaina, 24 June 2020
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)
TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ...