Sri Lanka will allow chartered flights from any country to land here and to fly out their nationals who are currently in the island nation on a holiday or work on request, an official statement said on Thursday

Sri Lanka recorded the first zero new coronavirus case day on March 25, as the country was engaged in an intense battle to bottle the Covid-19 bug, and curfew was tightened to combat the possibility of small clusters in the Western Province of the island

Sri Lanka’s Colombo airport is serving daily and weekly flights facilitating international transit passengers and export-import cargo of the last remaining global hubs amid a Coronavirus pandemic as airports are closed, transit is banned and carriers grounded across the world

Washington-based World Bank has together with the International Monetary Fund asked creditor countries to suspend debt repayments of poor countries that were classed as eligible to receive loans from its concessionary window as a coronavirus outbreak hit the world

Sri Lanka has asked international lending agencies to give debt relief for vulnerable nations as a coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc around the world

The Sri Lankan government has recognized the Colombo, Gampaha, and Kalutara districts as high-risk zones for the spread of COVID – 19

With the spread of COVID – 19, the Sri Lanka Association of Geriatric Medicine issued a set of guidelines to protect elderly people from the virus

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Media Division, in a statement, says that the support of all party leaders and public representatives in the recently dissolved Parliament will be obtained to mitigate the spread of COVID 19