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Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP.
- Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 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 ...
GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)
FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ...
College of Community Physicians: COVID-19 Burials
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/14/2021)
TRUE: WHO, CDC and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control had issued clear and extensive guidelines on handling dead bodies confirmed or suspected as having COVID-19… all these global pandemic control ...
Mujibur Rahman: COVID-19 foreign financing
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/11/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: We know that our country has received a large amount of money from abroad to control [the COVID-19 pandemic] ... In general, when everything is added up, [Sri Lanka] has received about LKR 200,000 million.
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Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)
TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community.
- Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020