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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka (68 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	12,156	12,156
Background	2,937	2,937
Timeline	14	87,326
First wave (until October 2020)	41	52,560
27 January – 9 March 2020	5,016	5,016
10–23 March 2020	11,193	11,193
24–31 March 2020	4,133	4,133
1 April 2020 – 15 April 2020	5,495	5,495
16 April 2020 – 30 April 2020	7,034	7,034
1 May 2020 – 21 May 2020	11,324	11,324
22 May 2020 – 28 June 2020	8,324	8,324
Second wave (4 October – present)	45	34,752
4 October 2020 – 19 October 2020	8,509	8,509
20 October 2020 – 31 October 2020	19,490	19,490
1 November 2020 – 8 November 2020	4,773	4,773
1 January 2021 – present	1,935	1,935
Clusters	13	20,733
Welisara Navy Camp cluster	2,330	2,330
Kandakadu cluster	1,067	1,067
Minuwangoda and Divulapitiya cluster	7,707	7,707
Alleged violation of quarantine protocol	2,013	2,013
University cases	2,602	2,602
Colombo National Hospital	504	504
Katunayaka Investment Zone	933	933
Peliyagoda fish market cluster	1,376	1,376
Other	2,188	2,188
Response	15,419	75,427
Politics	5,311	5,311
Disposal of bodies	3,791	3,791
Philadelphia Missionary Church	3,368	3,368
Maligawatta stampede	2,247	2,247
Travel restrictions	5,043	5,043
Arrests and legal actions	3,605	3,605
First wave curfews and lockdowns	9,001	9,001
International support	2,640	2,640
Criticisms regarding Big Match	2,055	2,055
Criticisms regarding general public	1,172	1,172
Research and development	5,033	5,033
MSC Magnifica	1,470	1,470
False reports and rumours	10,978	10,978
Prison riots	3,755	3,755
"Nagitimu Sri Lanka"	539	539
Impact	13	42,262
Elections	6,256	6,256
Tourism	647	647
Environment	429	429
Education	3,718	3,718
Government Examinations	1,695	1,695
Entertainment	1,204	1,204
Economy	14,029	14,029
Religious services	3,205	3,205
Sports	11,066	11,066
Vaccination program	2,917	2,917
George Floyd protests	1,267	1,267
Statistics	15	28,097
Charts	13	18,818
Confirmed new cases per day	9,800	9,800
Confirmed deaths per day	9,005	9,005
Total confirmed cases, active cases, recoveries and deaths	5,395	5,395
Number of COVID-19 deaths by age as of 31 December 2020	320	320
New cases by week reported	722	722
By region	2,827	2,827
See also	89	89
References	33	33
External links	395	10,138
New cases	3,314	3,314
Recoveries	3,334	3,334
Death per day	3,095	3,095
Total	283,382	283,382

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I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:31, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GRAPH

I've inserted a Graph. Please help improve it. The X axis is the date (March 2020), and the Y axix is number of confirmed cases.Muffizainu (talk) 15:18, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Muffizainu: Thank you for your contributions to the article and for the graph. Abishe (talk) 14:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Sri Lanka

Please can anyone comment about the current graph that depicting the "COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka" is correct or not.--L Manju (talk) 16:32, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@L Manju: At first sight it looks wrong. Today's situation report (the latest we have) says as at 10am on 28 March there were 106 cases, not 110.--Obi2canibe (talk) 20:25, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Obi2canibe: Thank you for your comment. Changes have been done after your comment. But still this graph shows us false information. According to it the first death in SL has been recorded today (Mar 29). But we know that was yesterday (Mar 28). The last report by the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health (Situation Report 62 ( 10 : 00 HRS )) has a bar chart under the title "New patients - Sri Lanka". It shows that there were no patients on 25 March & 27 March. The current graph says that were in 26& 28 March. But we know that yesterday 9 new cases were recorded. --L Manju (talk) 09:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@L Manju: You are correct, the graph is wrong with regard to the death. All the news sources say the death occurred yesterday (28 March). I myself first read about it yesterday. You are also correct in that there were no new cases on 25 March and 27 March.

The problem is that the situation is changing rapidly and data is being updated several times a day by officials. Often this results in old data becoming outdated. However, the template is being edited by unregistered and new users who aren't being diligent in checking the data, particularly previous days' data. I suggest you ask for Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Sri Lanka medical cases chart to be semi-protected.--Obi2canibe (talk) 14:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Obi2canibe:@L Manju: Health Ministry official EOD (End of Day) report for a given day get published at 10.00 am, following day. So there are discrepancies between live updated numbers and official numbers for the day.The better source would be the daily situation update published here. [1] Nishadhi (talk) 16:55, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected the data as per the official reports. The first local patient got admitted to IDH on 10th, but diagnosed on 11th and fist appeared on the the 12th report which was the EOD report for the 11th. (Confusing isn't it?) So the Data was changed accordingly. Nishadhi (talk) 17:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nishadhi: Yes that is true. The report published today contains the data of the previous day. But without understanding this simple matter some users edited this template in a wrong manner --L Manju (talk) 04:51, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chanakal: I don't understand your reason Chanakal. We all can discuss it here. Nishadhi (talk) 05:33, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Obi2canibe:@Nishadhi: The following bar chart was extracted from the "Situation report 65 ( 10 : 00 HRS)" by Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. It clearly shows the correct X and Y axes values. --L Manju (talk) 05:48, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This bar chart was extracted from the "Situation report 65 ( 10 : 00 HRS)" by Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

@L Manju: I mentioned this already. April 2nd report contains not only patients recorded on April 1st, but patients reported on April 2nd until 10 am. If the report is issued in the midnight, then your logic is correct.--Chanaka L (talk) 13:09, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chanakal: Then how can you explain the discrepancy in "number of daily cases" between the epid lk data and our graph? If Epidemiology Unit put forward their data as such, we have to adhere to the same conventions. Otherwise graph would be Original research. Regards. Nishadhi (talk) 15:13, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nishadhi: Can you be more specific? What dataset are you referring to?--Chanaka L (talk) 15:36, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chanakal: My bad, I linked it earlier but forgot to mention it here. This is the daily situation report page [2]. And here is the official report on 02/04/2020 for the previous 24 hours [3]. See the daily new patients graph. Nishadhi (talk) 16:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chanakal: Every local sources including the news portals use this graph as the correct one because it is the official report that published by the government. The current wiki chart however, misleads the readers easily by giving wrong data about the today situation. According to the current wiki chart, today we have new 5 cases and the total is at 148. But we know that the total number of patients today are 151. So what should we do for that error. The Health Promotion Bureau of Sri Lanka here gives us a live update about the today situation. We can use it in our chart to denote the today values (ex: COVID-19 Situation Report by HPB on 2 April 2020 at 21:04 = 151 confirmed cases. 5 new cases. 21 recovered & discharged. 4 deaths). Otherwise, as already said by Nishadi, this wiki chart will be appeared to others as an original work done by few unknown Wikipedia users:- hence an unreliable source.--L Manju (talk) 18:09, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See this government site also - COVID-19 : Live Situational Analysis Dashboard of Sri Lanka. It clearly shows that our current chart is wrong --L Manju (talk) 08:48, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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<ref>Under Religious Services section, only catholic and Islamic contributions have been mentioned. However most of effort and support has been given by Buddhist monasteries and temples. Sri Lankan buddhist monks started Pirith Chanting to pray to combat against Covid19 island wide temples started this daily (See source: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/sri-lanka-offers-buddhist-prayers-to-combat-covid-coronavirus-1655955-2020-03-16). Many monks directed people to support the combat by supplying medical items, food items and many supplies to keep lifestyle of people. They organized awareness programmes like in buddhist television channels such as Pragna TV (http://www.pragnatv.lk/) and SraddhaTV (https://www.shraddha.lk/). Some monasteries such as Mahamevna Asapuwa started projects including developing masks and face shields for health sector (Source: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/disinfectantfaceshield?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__tn__=*NKH-R).

Under Research and development section, mention efforts of Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology and University of Peradeniya. Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology developed antimicrobial surface nano-coating to disinfect viruses. The coating has been applied in hospitals such as Homagama base hospital. The institute in collaboration with SrddhaTV developed 10000 face shields coated with this antimicrobial coating. SLINTEC also reverse engineered and manufactured swabs for covid19 tests with the daily capacity of 3000 (Source: https://www.facebook.com/slintec/posts). University of Peradeniya scientists and engineers developed another antimicrobial paint (At Department of chemistry, Faculty of Science and postgraduate institute of Science, University of Peradeniya) which will be applied in hospitals (Source: https://www.facebook.com/123380532393978/photos/a.180485446683486/245879460144084/?type=3&theater). Engineers of faculty of engineering, University of Peradeniya has repaired and developed oxygen respiratory systems and ICU beds (Source: http://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/COVID-19-outbreak-in-Sri-Lanka-Help-us-to-help-you-request-medics/131-186092). National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka allocated funding to combat covid19 pandemic and called proposals from Sri Lankan scientists (Source:http://www.nsf.gov.lk/index.php/component/content/article/921-call-for-proposals-to-combat-covid-19-and-mitigate-its-impact.html).

Kindly include above details to each section of this article. Mantilaka (talk) 08:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

YDone @Mantilaka: Thank you for bringing the missed important information and I modified your information and added them in relevant sections. Sources especially social media platforms such as Facebook are not reliable and I added only the news sources from newspapers and press releases. Abishe (talk) 17:52, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for considering Abishe Abishe. Please see reliable sources to confirm antimicrobial face shields to combat Covid19 prepared by Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology in collaboration with SraddhaTV owned by Mahamevna Buddhist Monastery (Source: http://www.mostr.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:ideal-solutions-for-covid-19-spreading&catid=8:events&lang=en&Itemid=200#sri-lanka-institute-of-nanotechnology-slintec). This will also contain antimicrobial paint developed at Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology. SLINTEC swab parduction is given in sources: https://www.slintec.lk/slintec-produces-swabs-for-covid-19-tests/, https://www.businessnews.lk/blog/2020/04/13/slintec-manufacture-swabs-for-covid-19-tests/, https://apparelresources.com/business-news/trade/sri-lankas-hi-fashion-holdings-start-manufacturing-covid-19-test-swabs/. The antimicrobial coating developed by Department of Chemistry, University of Peradeniya with Postgraduate Institute of Science University of Peradeniya is given in source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ye63MctaQY&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2aeUqy58LlvIP2thuvjovXM9USN-3E2Ef6mBExtlWIZ0A38qHdTBHhKjw Hope you are able to publish these things on Wikipedia page

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Please add the controversies surrounding minister A Thondaman Funeral 112.134.97.104 (talk) 10:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. TheImaCow (talk) 14:19, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Daily new cases graph

I've create daily new cases graph (bar). It's can't update after 8 November. Please advise! Mithila (talk) 05:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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(contrib) 17:02, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]