Number of coronavirus patients detected in Sri Lanka reaches 310

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

Nineteen chief jailors transferred

Nineteen chief jailors of prisons across the country have been transferred with immediate effect. Prison officials stated that the chief jailor of the Negombo prison, who was recently interdicted for providing a mobile phone and sim card to an inmate, is also among the transferred officials. The chief jailor of the Negombo prison has been transferred to the Dumbara prison, they said. The Prison officials added that the jailors were transferred based on service requirements.? Meanwhile, a pri

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