Hundred and eighteen (118) inmates consists of 98 in Sampoor and 20 in Oluvil Naval quarantine centers who were undergoing quarantine period, left the centers after completion of their quarantine process, on 08^th May 2020.

In commemoration of the Vesak day which marks the Birth, the Enlightenment and the Passing Away of the Gautama Buddha, Religious observances were fulfilled in the premises of all Naval Bases. During these events, blessings were evoked for rapid recovery of all naval personnel under treatment for COVID-19, Sri Lankans and entire human beings who suffer from the pandemic spread all over the world.

Sri Lanka Navy, today (04^th May 2020), brought ashore a fisherman who was suddenly fallen sick with Paralysis (Cerebral Vascular Accident) aboard a fishing trawler which had left for deep sea fishing from Beruwala fisheries harbour.

A stock of healthcare outfits required to be worn in the campaigns carried out by the Navy to control the coronavirus in the country, was donated to the Navy by LOLC Holdings, through the “Manusath Derana” programme, at Naval Headquarters, today (30^th April 2020).

A remote-controlled smart appliance called ‘Medi Mate’ developed by Navy was handed over to the Negombo District General Hospital, today (27^th April 2020).

A Navy Officer who was undergoing treatment for Leptospirosis at Intensive Care Unit in Navy General Hospital, Welisara passed away, on 25^th April 2020.

Sri Lanka Navy apprehended two persons along with a haul of 93kg of cannabis which had been attempted to transport to the land by a dinghy, at the Kadeikadu South beach area in Vettalaikerni, Jaffna on 22^nd April 2020.

Sri Lanka Navy deployed its Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) SLNS ‘Samudura’ to seize a vessel loaded with a large consignment of drugs in high seas about 548 nautical miles (985km) off Sri Lankan shores.

During the first quarter of the year 2020, Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) of Sri Lanka Navy in high seas, producing successful results, were able to seize foreign vessels carrying large consignments of heroin, crystal methamphetamine (ice) and ketamine and apprehend a number of drug traffickers.

Taking in to account a basic concept mooted by an inventor, Mr. Thushara Kelum Wadasinghe, the Navy’s Research and Development Unit developed a remote-controlled smart appliance called ‘Medi Mate’ in a bid to treat and test COVID-19 patients,