Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa met with officials, as well as tour as operators on Tuesday to discuss the preventive and precautionary measures to be adopted to combat the coronavirus in Sri Lanka.
At the meeting the health authorities present on the occasion stated that they would be manning the scanners already established at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and had expressed satisfaction with this measure at the point of entry.
It had also been observed that any if required would be quarantined. (SD)
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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