COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Election Fee (EC) Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya introduced on Thursday that the final election won’t be held on April 25 as scheduled on account of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sri Lanka has up until Thursday recorded 59 coronavirus sufferers, with the primary affected person, a vacationer tour information having totally recovered early this week.
The federal government on Thursday additionally introduced a “work from home” time interval from March 20 to 27 for presidency and personal sectors.
Well being, banks, transport and important providers are to proceed as regular.
In the meantime, the resort trade, one of many worst-hit sectors from the COVID-19 pandemic, on Wednesday referred to as for pressing assist from the federal government to forestall closures and job losses arising from the disaster of the novel COVID-19 pandemic.
The Central Financial institution of Sri Lanka on Thursday introduced pressing measures to ease stress on the trade fee and requested industrial banks to cease facilitating all sorts of motor autos and non-essential items for 3 weeks.
Police curfew was imposed on Wednesday within the Puttalam district within the Northwest province and the Kochchikade space in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo. The choice to resort to police curfew as a way to hold folks of their homes, was taken in a bid to curtail the journey of these returnees who’re evading quarantine.
Police bulletins are being aired on loudspeakers in each district asking those that returned to Lanka between March 1 and 10 to register with the closest police station.
General particular person and social irresponsibility stays the primary problem for the federal government and well being authorities in Sri Lanka, as an exasperated President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday narrated how he had referred to as for the cancelling of the favored annual cricket match of two Colombo-based prestigious boys’ college in Sri Lanka however college authorities insisted on it being held as scheduled.
Sri Lanka’s Well being Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi addressing the media at a press convention mentioned that presently, the federal government was transferring in a step-by-step foundation to see how the lockdown choice is used selectively, in figuring out areas there that are excessive danger and take motion as wanted.
Additionally, Sri Lanka’s well being ministry reiterated that the nation was not in danger from Chinese language nationals who had not too long ago come again to the nation for work, stating that no Chinese language nationwide was beneath statement for the COVID-19 in hospitals within the nation.
Revealed in Daybreak, March 20th, 2020
