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Friday, March 20, 2020

Number Of Corona Virus Positives In Sri Lanka Increased To 70

Eleven new Corona virus positives had

been identified from Sri Lanka today (29) and with this numbed the total number of Corona virus positives identified in Sri Lanka has been increased to 70 according to Ministry Of Health.

Out of this number 39 postives are those who arrived from foreign countries mainly from Italy and 25 persons are infected with the virus after having contacts with them Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi has stated .

Around 218 persons suspected as infected with the virus are being treated in 13 government Hospitals including Infectious Diseases Hospital the Ministry has stated.

Meanwhile according to the latest statistics available majority of the Corona virus positives identified from Sri Lanka which is 45.2 percent belongs to 41-50 age group .

Sixty nine out of seventy corona virus positives reported so far from Sri Lanka are Sri Lankans and other patient was a Chinese female .

Island Wide Curfew To Be Imposed From 6 P.M this evening Until 6 A.M Monday Morning To Combat Against Corona Virus

Government has decided to impose an

island wide curfew from 6 p.m this evening (20)until 6 a.m next Monday morning (23) to combat against spreading Corona Virus (Covid-19) in the country .

Accordingly All Expressways in the country closed down at 4 p.m this evening and before that all Trains stopped running 3.30 p.m it has been announced. The train services is scheduled to resume on 6 a.m this Monday morning according to Railway Control Room.

Earlier Police Headquarters had imposed curfew in Puttalam, Chilaw and Kochchikade areas since 6 p.m last Wednesday (18)evening due to a large number of persons arrived in from Italy and several countries freely moving without undergoing self quarantine and in Wattala and Ja-Ela areas since last evening (19)where few Corona virus positives had been identified .

The curfew imposed in Wattala and Ja-Ela areas had been lifted at 8 a.m this morning and remanded imposed it since 2 p.m .

People are being requested to stay at home and all pilgrims and picnics within the country too banned since yesterday the National Action Center on preventing Spreading of Corona virus has been announced.

Sri Lanka has also banned operating foreign pilgrim tours until further notice due to the corona virus outbreak in other countries.

A section of the pilgrims who had visited Dambadiwa ,India before banning foreign pilgrim tours brought to the island last morning through a special flight .

Meanwhile since the announcement of curfew this morning long queue s had seen Infront of Supermarkets and Petrol sheds throughout the island.

Extra buses and Trains had been utilised in Colombo fort to transport commuters to their home before the curfew .

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Bangladesh Mass Prayer Event Prompts Virus Outbreak .

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An Important Advisory For Travellers To Prevent Spreading Of Corona Virus

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Government Has Declared A Week Of Working At Home Policy To Minimise The Spreading Of Corona Virus

Government has declared a week of

Performing office duties whilst at home for state and private sector employees from 20 th of March (Tomorrow )until 27 th of March to prevent spreading of Corona Virus in the county .

Accordingly All heads of of State and private institutions are being advised to prepare a mechanism regsrding this and immplemting it from tomorrow.

However essential services including Health ,Electricity ,Water ,Food supply and Transport services are not included for this activity .

Presidential Secretariet has this evening issued a circular regarding performing office duties at home for one week .Preventing Spreading of Corona virus here through minimising the accesss of employees in State and private sectors to their offices is the primary aim of this plan it has been announced.