Travel restrictions to be relaxed from June 21st…
➢ Inter-provincial travel restrictions to remain…
➢ Permission to conduct last rites on non-COVID 19 deaths within 24 hours…
It has been decided to relax travel restrictions from 4 am on the 21st of June. However, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructed the officials not to relax the inter-provincial travel restrictions.
Travel restrictions will be re-imposed and continue from 10 pm on June 23rd to 4 am on June 25th.
The restrictions imposed on public gatherings will continue as before. In addition, the heads of institutions in both public and private sectors should ensure that the respective entities are maintained under a minimum number of employees. The President also emphasized the need for all trade and economic operations to be carried out with the participation of a minimum number of people.
These remarks were made by the President at a meeting with the Special COVID-19 Committee at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (18).
