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Travel advisories on dengue: Foreign Ministry help sought to advise tourists
View(s):The Tourism Ministry will seek the Foreign Ministry’s help to be briefed on the current status of the dengue outbreak in view of the adverse publicity in the past few weeks, a senior official said. Tourism Ministry Secretary Janaka Sugathadasa told the Sunday Times they would request the Foreign Ministry to inform the missions that there was minimal impact on foreigners.
“We want to highlight the respective embassies that up to now there have not been any reports of deaths of tourists and that the tourists hot spots have not been affected badly due to dengue,” he said. The move came after five countries — the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States and Ireland — issued travel advisories, warning their citizens against visiting Sri Lanka due to the dengue outbreak.
Mr. Sugathadasa said they wanted the Foreign Ministry to inform the missions that they were expecting a reduction in the number of cases in a span of two weeks with the prevailing campaigns in the country.