Colombo: The World Health Organisation has certified Sri Lanka free of malaria, the second country in the region to earn the distinction after the Maldives, the health ministry said.
The UN agency had sent teams to Sri Lanka in the past three years to evaluate its efforts to ensure there was not a single indigenous malaria case since 2012, the ministry said in a statement.
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