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Sri Lanka opens doors to tourists once again
By: Times News Service
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Muscat: People from Oman looking to spend a holiday in Sri Lanka can now do so, after the island country began once again welcoming tourists. Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Sri Lanka had stopped all leisure travel to the country for a period of 10 months, and measures have been put into effect to test visitors for the disease.
Up to 2,500 tourists will be allowed into Sri Lanka each day. While applying for a tourist visa online, travellers now have to pay $40 (OMR15.5) per PCR test for up to three swab tests, depending on the length of stay, and $12 (OMR5) for mandatory COVID-19 insurance of up to US$50,000, valid for one month. “Another requirement is an advance booking at one or more of 52 properties certified as Level 1 hotels under the Sri Lankan government’s Safe and Secure scheme,” said Ameer Ajwad, the ambassador of Sri Lanka to Oman.
Migrant workers arriving in Colombo
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Oman in collaboration with the Presidential Secretariat and the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka, repatriated 568 stranded Sri Lankan migrant workers from Muscat to Colombo by SriLankan Airlines in two batches on January 14 and 15. This includes over 300 stranded Sri Lankan migrant workers who overstayed in the Sultanate of Oman after their expiry of visas. The Government of Oman granted an amnesty for these destitute migrant workers to leave Oman for Sri Lanka with the full waiver of their penalties and fines.
The Embassy provided them with travel documents free to return home.
Oman, Sri Lanka to cooperate in academic field
By: Times News Service
Muscat: The ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Sultanate of Oman, Ameer Ajwad, met with the new Vice Chancellor of the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) HH Dr Fahad Al Julanda Al Said on December 29, 2020 on the university premises in Muscat.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Cooperation of the SQU Her Highness Dr Mona Fahad Al Said was also present during the meeting.
The envoy briefed the Vice Chancellor on areas of cooperation between the SQU and the national Universities in Sri Lanka
They also discussed exchange programmes for faculty members and students of both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in different disciplines. Promotion of educational activities was also proposed during the discussion. They agreed to initiate virtual interactions due to the pandemic.