Gampaha Werellawatta Covid-19 Treatment Center is expected to be completed and handed over to the Health sector within two weeks of time, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said.

Tourism Minister, Prasanna Ranatunga asserted that a well-planned program will be carried out to repatriate Sri Lankans who have gone to India for health and other necessary needs and the steps will be taken in this regard after next week.

In the wake of detection of more and more COVID-19 positive cases, one more review meeting, held yesterday (9) at the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID- 19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) at Rajagiriya, together with all health authorities and medical experts re-visited the status quo, transmission patterns of the deadly virus and evaluated emergency arrangements, PCR test procedures, existing strategies and their repercussions, co-operation between those responsible authorities and new cases/inmates in hospitals, ICCs and the state of Quarantine Centres (QCs), etc.

Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has stated that there is no point in implementing a complete lockdown on the whole country to curtail the Coronavirus and that the government is taking maximum measures to curb the pandemic.