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The road block and the desolate road in Veyangoda indicate that the police are strictly imposing the local curfew to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Veyangoda and 18 other police areas in the Gampaha District, has been put under a police curfew for the past one week.  Pix by Ananda Jayakody.

 

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