The Divaina newspaper had reported a news item titled “The Omicron variant cannot be controlled by vaccination.” on the 3rd of December. According to the report, Dr. Padma Gunaratne, President of the Ceylon Medical Association and a specialist in neurology, declared in a media briefing in Colombo on December 2nd that the Omicron variant could not be controlled by vaccines. During fact investigation, it was revealed that the specialist Dr. Padma Gunaratne had not made such a statement at the press conference.The media briefing was uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, where she has stated that more attention should be paid to vaccination and that the booster vaccine should be given as soon as possible. Therefore, it is confirmed that the specialist Dr. Padma Gunaratne did not say that the Omicron variant cannot be controlled by vaccination.