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Sri Lanka needs well-designed political and economic policy changes for long-term recovery
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AI-based cameras detect rail travellers with fever, without masks
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Bhutan Foundation donates 200,000 non-medical face masks
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Nepal records highest single-day COVID-19 cases as 2,020 infections surface on Friday
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Nepal stresses on launching socio-economic revival programmes
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