All Schools To Be Closed During Next Week Due To Election

All the Schools in the island are

scheduled to be closed down next week due to the Parliamentary elections on 05 th of August according to Ministry of Education.

As most of the schools are being used as voting and counting Centers of the Election and Teachers are involved in election duties, Schools are close down next week the Ministry has stated . Next Momday (03)is a poya holiday here .

All the schools in the island from Grade 01 to 13 will be opened from 10 th of August Minister has announced. Teachers and non academic staff of All schools are being requested to report to duty on 10th of August .

However schools with over 200 students will be commenced educational activities in different times with limited number of students attending classes at once according to Corona Control Health guidelines .

Earlier All schools  had  been commenced their  educational activities for Grades 11,12 and 13 from last Monday  (27) after closing in March due to the Corona pandamic .

No Corona Positives Had Been Identified Today (29)

No Corona postives had been identified

  in the country today (29)so far according  to the "PCR "tests that had been  conducted  the Epidemeology Unit has been stated .

Accordingly the total number of Corona positives reported so far remains at 2810.

Meanwhile the Repatriation of Sri Lankans who are  stranded in foreign countries due to the Corona pandamic which was suspended temporarily recently, is scheduled  to  re commence this Friday (31).

21 Corona Positives Had Been Discharged From.Hospitals Today (29) After Recovery

A total of 21 Corona positives had been

discharged from hospitals today (29)after full recovery according to the Epidemeology Unit .

Accordingly the total number of Corona positives discharged from hospitals so far had risen to 2317 .

At the moment  482 Corona positives  and 80 suspected cases  are being treated in Government Hospitals. 

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A Jaffna Resident Was Arrested Over Attempting To Migrate Europe Through Fake Documents

Immigration and Emigration officials

have today  (28)arrested a 36 year old person who had attempted to fly Europe by submitting fake documents indicating that he is a Naval  officer attached to a Merchant Ship at the Katunayake International Airport. 

The suspect who is a resident of Kopai in Jaffna had attempted to migrate Europe by submitting fake documents, However the immigration officers had  suspected on  his behaviour and found the documents  submitted by the suspect are fake ones during testing them .

immigration and Emigration officials had later handed over the suspect to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officials at the Airport for further investigations.