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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Fourteen Sri Lankan Nationals Strandad At Singapore And Dubai Airports Brought Back To Sri Lanka According To A Cabinet Decision

fourteen Sri lankans who had been

strandsd at Airports in Singapore and Dubai brought back to Sri lanka last night (11)through a special Sri lankan Airlines flight it has been revealed .

This group is due to be sent to a quarantine center for a 21 day quarantine process according to reports .

Accordingly 09 Sri lankans strandad at Airport in Singapore and 05 in Airport at Dubai were brought back to Sri lanka according to a Cabinet decision taken recently to bring back 33 Sri lankans strandad at International Airports in few countries .Another 19 remains to be arrived in Sri lanka .

Sri lanka had already closed down its Airports to in view of controlling the spreading of Corona virus .

Navy Had Arrested 52 Prrsons In Ja-Ela Area Who Had Close Contacts With 06 Corona Positives In Ja-Ela

Sri Lanka Navy have yesterday

(11)arrested 52 persons who had close contacts with 06 corona virus positives identified in Ja ela recently and sent them to a Quarantine center for quarantine .

These 52 persons including 41 males ,06 females and 06 children had been arrested by the Navy according to the information provided by intelligence officials .

A corona virus patient had been identified from Ja-Ela area recently and Navy had identified 28 persons who had ckose contacts with that patient .During quarantine at Quarantine center in Oluwil 06 of them were confirmed as corona virus positives through tests .

Afterwards Navy had identified 52 persons who had close contacts with those 06 positives .

Saturday, April 11, 2020

All Schools To Be Re-Opened On 11th Of May

Government has decided to re open all

schools on 11 th of May for the second term not on 20th of April as earlier planned in view of preventing the spreading of corona virus in the society .
Steps are being taken to provide facilities to students to carryout their studies through distance learning system during the long holidays according to the Ministey of Education .

Meanwhile the power to take a
decision regarding opening of universities after consideting the situation has been given to University authorities through Ministry of Hhigher Education .