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Thursday, May 21, 2020

An Island Wide Curfew To Be Imposed In 24 Districts On This Sunday And Monday (Ramazan Holiday)-Curfew In Colombo And Gsmpaha To Continue

An islandwide Curfew is scheduled to

be imposed on this Sunday (24) and Monday (25)-Ramazan holiday the Presidential Media Division has announced today (22).

Accordingly the Curfew imposed in Colombo and Gampaha Districts will be continued until further notice and an Island wide curfew will be imposed from 8 p.m tomorrow(23)until 5 a.m next Tuesday (26)in other 24 Districts .

The curfew in those 24 Districts will be continued from 8 p.m to 5 a.m from Tuesday onwards The President's Media Unit has announced .

Curfew in those 24 Districts has been imposed during this week from 8 p.m to 5 a.m even today (22).

Meanwhile governmant has announced that the functioning of Country's economy will continue amidst the curfew imposed in Colombo and Gampaha districts from next Tuesday .

Twenty Seven Corona Positives Reported From Sri Lanka Yesterday (21)

Twenty seven Corona virus positives

had been reported yesterday (21) by 11.58 p.m ,increasing the total number of Corona positives reported from here to 1055 according to Epidemeology Unit .

Accordingly 15 out of the 27 Corona positives reported during yesterday were those who had arrived from Dubai and under quarantine in quarantine centers here ,11 were Navy personal and 01 was a returnee from Kuwait who is under quarantine it has been revealed .

At the moment 442 Corona positives amd 139 suspected as Corona positives are being treated at Governmemt Hospitals .During yesterday 1603 PCR Tests performed to identify Corona positives and up to now 49,124 Such tests had been performed here .

Veteran Popular Singer Victor Ratnayake Is Currently Receiving ICU Treatment At A Private Hospital -His Son Lelum Ratnayake Says

Veteran popular Singer and Musician Visharada Victor Ratnayake is currently receiving treatment at Intensive care unit of a Private Hospital for a sudden illness his youngest son Lelum Ratnayake has revealed through a video posted to a site yesterday (21).

The condition of the Veteran Singer is little critical and he is suffering from a kidney ailment with breathing difficulty he has stated .Both Lelum and his eldest sister had visited their father at the Hospital according to the Video .

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Six Persons Who Had Been Arrested Over Money Distribution Event In Maligawatte Had Been Remanded

The six persons arrested at a house in

Jumma Masjid road in Maligawatte over arranging a mass gathering in front of a house to distribute money where deaths of three females occurred due to a huge stampade ,had been remanded until 04 th of June by the Colombo Chief Magistrate last evening (21).

The Businessman who had arranged the Money distribution are among the six suspects arrested and remanded over the incident by the Maligawatte police .

A police team had arrived in the scene where the stampade occurred ladt evening according to a telephone call received to the Police emergancy line regsrding the mass gathering .

This Money distribution event is an annually organized event it has been revealed .

Updated-Twenty Corona Positives Had Been Reported Yesterday (21)

20 Corona virus positives had been

reported yesterday (21) ,increasing the total number of Corona positives in the country to 1047 according to Epidemeology Unit .

17 Out of the first 19 Corona positives reported yesterday were those who had arrived sri lanka from Dubai and undergoing quarantine at Quarantine centers and 04 were Navy personal it has been reported .

At the moment 435 Corona Positives are being treated in Government Hospitals .