Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has said, so far repatriations have been carried out by the GOSL identifying the most vulnerable categories of Overseas Sri Lankans  (OSLs), in the face of the limited availability of quarantine facilities in the country, as Sri Lanka continues to seek to gain control over the spread of COVID 19 in Sri Lanka.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Presidential Task Force in charge of Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication.

Other than the curfew now in force in the Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttalam Districts the curfew enforced at 8.00 pm on Friday (24) in all other districts will be in force until 5.00 am on Monday (27), DIG Ajith Rohana said during the Covid Task Force media briefing yestarday (24).

The PCR tests conducted on naval personnel who had come in contact with the Covid-19 infected sailor had confirmed that 30 naval personnel are infected, Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva said in a special statement.