Srilanka

In the face of the Coronavirus pandemic, the government has taken a far-sighted decision and not imposed any restrictions on the export crops cultivation such as tea, rubber and coconut which are export crops which help boost the countryeconomy, said Plantations Minister Ramesh Pathirana addressing a media briefing held at the Government Information Auditorium yesterday (06).

A representative consortium of over 60 Sri Lanka's most leading indigenous medical practitioners at the invitation of the Health Ministry and Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) who assembled at Rajagiriya NOCPCO this afternoon (5), were invited to immediately explore possibilities of finding an alternative traditional medicine to cure COVID-19 pandemic through age-old 'Hela Wedakama', practised for many centuries in the island-nation in keeping with 'Ayurveda' and 'Siddha' systems.

The 06th Covid-19 death was reported in the country a short while ago, confirmed the Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe.

The curfew imposed in the high-risk areas such as Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Puttalam, Kandy and Jaffna districts will be in effect until further notice.