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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Office Commuters Can Now Travel In Trains Without Booking Seats -Passanger Transport Ministry

As Most of the office commuters who

had booked Train seats earlier avoid travellng in trains authorities have decided to cancel the seat booking system operated in Trains and allowed every office commuter to travel in Trains through purchasing a ticket from today (20)according to Ministry of Passanger Transport Management .

However only office commuters who are being produced their office Identity card can travel in trains these days it has been announced .Normal passangers are still not allow to Travel through trains .

Corona Positives World Wide Exceeded 5 Million -Sri Lanka Occupies 102 nd Place

Corona virus positives reported in 213

countries and territories has exceeded 5 million this noon (20).Majority of these positives had been reported in USA which is more than 1.5 million .

Russia is being placed second in the Corona positive list and Spain is third ,Brazil is fourth and England is fifth in the list.Sri lanka is currently placed in 102 nd place.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

466 Sri Lankans Illegally Stayed In Kuwait Were Brough Back To Sri Lanka Last Night(19)

Two Kuwaiti Airlines flights had

brought back 466 Sri lankans who were stayed illegally in Kuwait last night (19)it has been reported.

Accordingly The first Kuwaiti Airlines flight had brought back 287 Sri lankan nationals and the second flight had carried 179 Sri lankans .

They were sent to Sri lanka during the grace period announced by the Kuwaiti government.The illegal migrants were provided with temporary Passports by the Sri Lankan Embassy in Kuwait to return to Sri lanka.

The Sri lankan migrants were disinfected along with their luggage at the Katunayake International Airport and later had been transported to Quarantine centers through Special Army Buses aftet undergoing a health checkup at the Katunaydke Airport Health office .

Around 19,000 Illegal Sri lankan migrant employees are there in Kuwait it has been revealed .

Thirty Five Corona Positives Had Been Reported Yesterdsy (19)- All Were From Navy Cluster

Thirty five Corona virus positives had

been reported in the country yesterday (19) until 11.55 p.m according to the Epidemeology Unit .

Accordingly the total number of Corona virus positives reported so far had risen to 1027 the unit has stated.All the 35 Corona positives reported yesterday were Navy personal .

At the momemt 449 Corona positives are being treated at Government Hospitals .

1062 "PCR "tests had been performed Yesterday (19) to identify Corona positives and the total number of "PCR "tests performed so far is 46,413.