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NOCPCO TF Members on 'COVID-19' Evaluate New Developments with Experts

2020-07-13

One more session of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) Task Force on COVID-19 got underway this afternoon (13) at the National Operation Centre for Prevention of...


Election Commission Seeks Coordination of NOCPCO Head, acting IGP & DG Health for Smooth Conduct of Polls

2020-07-10

A meeting that took place this afternoon (6) at the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) at Rajagiriya between the Commissioner General...


All Possibilities for COVID-19 Transmission to Society Averted- Lt Gen Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO

2020-07-09

A Media Communique issued by Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head, National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army is as follows:


East Troops Renovate Abandoned School & Enable Its Re-Opening

2020-07-04

23 Division and 231 Brigade troops in collaboration with 4 Gemunu Watch, 11 (V) Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment and 6 Gajaba Regiment jointly supported the re-opening of the abandoned Wellawadiya Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya after converting...


Unclaimed Apples Released by the Customs Shared among Elders, Children & The Disable in Special Orphanages & Homes

2020-07-04

The Army's Quarter Master General (QMG) Branch and Directorate of Supply and Transport on the guidelines given by Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva,


Corps of Sri Lanka Engineers Regimental HQ Felicitates New Chief of Staff

2020-07-04

Corps of Sri Lanka Engineers (SLE) Regimental Headquarters at Panagoda on Wednesday (1) hosted a reception and felicitated the recently-appointed Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army and Colonel Commandant of the...


155 Associates Sent to Kandakadu Quarantine Centre -NOCPCO

2020-07-02

The Flight No UL 455 from Japan with 261 passengers arrived in Sri Lanka today (03). All of them were sent to Quarantine Centers (QCs), managed by tri services for necessary quarantine process, a statement issued this evening (4) by the National Operation...


NOCPCO Head Tells ‘Other Side of the Story on COVID-19 Control’ in ‘Big Focus’

2020-06-29

‘Big Focus’ of ‘Derana’ TV this morning (29) in a wide-ranging interview with the Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of Defence Staff and Commander...


NOCPCO Head Appeals the Public to Continue Health Precautions & Guidelines

2020-06-27

While paying gratitude to the general public for the overwhelming support they extended towards the near successful control of spread of COVID-19 in the country, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva,


Retiring Major General Deshapriya Gunawardena's Services Hailed

2020-06-26

One of the proud soldiers-produced by the Gemunu Watch (GW), Major General Deshapriya Gunawardena, Director General of the Infantry at the Army Headquarters on the eve of his retirement from the Army was invited by the Chief of Defence Staff...