Sri Lanka says it needs Indian and Chinese assistance

UNICEF report finds 30 per cent of families reduced food consumption in Sri Lanka

A UNICEF report found that 30 per cent of families in Sri Lanka had reduced food consumption in May. The regional report said that South Asia, and Governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slipping back into poverty. With the pandemic expanding rapidly across a region that contains a quarter of the world?s population,?Lives Upended?describes the disastrous immediate and longer-term consequences that the virus and the measures to curb it have had on 600 million ch

24 Jun, 2020

Sri Lanka to welcome tourists by assuring a ?safe and secure? traveller experience

Following Sri Lanka?s successful containment of COVID-19, Sri Lanka Tourism has been collaboratively exploring avenues of re-positioning Sri Lanka as the world?s number one destination with an excellent health care system, by introducing extensive health and safety protocols to ensure a ?Safe and Secure? traveller experience, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority said today. Through an extensive consultative process with all stakeholders within the tourism sector, a comprehensive operatio

24 Jun, 2020

More Sri Lankans repatriated from the Maldives

A group of 169 Sri Lankans, who were stranded overseas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, arrived in Sri Lanka today. The Sri Lankans who were stranded in the Maldives arrived at the Mattala International Airport. They were repatriated via a special flight chartered by National Carrier SriLankan Airlines. The Ministry of Foreign Relations has been repatriating Sri Lankans stranded overseas since air travel was restricted in many countries due to the global coronavirus outbreak. (Colombo Gazette)

24 Jun, 2020