Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in a special statement urged the general public to render their utmost support to the government’s efforts to save the country from the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva said that a group of around 50  native medical practitioners, acupuncture therapists and homoeopathy practitioners had met with the Health Minister at the National Operation Centre for the Prevention of Covid-19 on the directives of the President, in order to look into possible measures that could be taken to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Around 1200 personnel employed under the Defence Ministry have voluntarily contributed Rs. 10 million to the Covid-19 Social Security Fund which was handed over to the President’s Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara at the Presidential Secretariat by the Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne yesterday morning.