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Sri Lanka mulls restricting foreign arrivals to curb Covid pandemic

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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka may place restrictions on overseas arrivals to limit the spread of coronavirus that has infected over 96,000 people and claimed more than 600 lives in the country, chief epidemiologist Sudath Samaraweera said on Saturday.He said some 15% of the positive cases reported this month have been overseas arrivals.“We have to review our current policy on arrivals.

We see most of the countries are experiencing third and fourth waves, some of them have completely shut overseas travel", Samaraweera said.“As we have been successful in tackling the situation locally to control it, we consider taking this move to restrict arrivals," he said.Sri Lanka has reported over 96,000 cases since the onset of the pandemic in March last year,.

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