Friday, February 7, 2020

Daily Chinese Arrivals To Sri Lanka Has Been Dropped To 30 -Female Student Admitted To BadUlla Hospital Not Suffering From Corona Virus -Health Ministry

Although Sri Lanka hasn't restricted the
arrival of Chinese Nationals due to the ongoing Corona virus outbreak, the daily arrivals of Chinese Nationals  has been dropped to  30  persons   instead of thousands of Chinese who came earlier according to Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi.

Sri Lanka however requested those who are planning to come here from Wuhan city and Hubei Province where the Corona Virus epidemic is spreading rapidly To cancel or postpone their planned  trips to Sri Lanka  through the chinese  embassy in Colombo  and this might have caused the reduction of Chinese arrivals    Minister has stressed  during a press briefing held on the Corona virus outbreak at the Health Ministry auditorium in Colombo last Thursday  (06) evening ..

Also Sri Lankan Embassy in Beijing,China too appealed  the Chinese Nationals in Hubei Province especially in Wuhan city  not to visit Sri Lanka these days Health Minister Wanniarachchi has revealed.

Immigration and Emigration Department had also  instructed the supervisors of working sites and Officers to restrict the movements of Chinese employees here to logging place and the working area as a precautionary meassure to avoid spreading corona virus here Minister has said .

Health Minister has stated that government has managed to avoid spreading Corona virus in the country and no need to panic over this ,We should built a special place with safety kits and everything that needs to prevent a future epidemics similar to Corona virus .The students arrived in from Wuhan Are doing well at the moment without any Corona virus Neumonia symptoms. "She has stressed.

Addressing the briefing DIrector of Epidemeology Unit Dr.Sudath Samaraweera has stated around 14 Corona virus suspected cases are currently being admitted to 09 Hospitals including the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Angoda and most of them seems to be suffering from Influenza -A virus currently spreading in some areas in the country due to the current weather .

"A panic situation arisen when a Sri Lankan female student arrived in Sri Lanka from China had been admitted to BadUlla General Hospital couple of days back .However she is not infected with the coroma virus and only admitted her due to having a sore throat .However she came from a place 1000 Kilo meters away from the Hubei Province in China  where the Corona virus epidemic spreading rapidly " Dr Samaraweera has pointed out.

Director General of Health Services Dr.Anil Jasinghe who has been appointed as the new vice president of the executive committee in  World Health Organization too spoke at the press briefing .

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