A scheduled repatriation flight arrived from the virus-hit United Kingdom on Wednesday evening.
The UK has been hit by a new coronavirus variant named VUI202012/01 as a result of which Sri Lanka had this week suspended flights from the UK.
However, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said that the Srilankan Airlines flight was on its way to the UK at the time a decision was taken to suspend arrivals from the UK.
He said that the flight had arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday evening and both the passengers and crew were sent for quarantine.
Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said that under normal circumstances passengers and crew of repatriation flights are quarantined separately.
Posted on December 24th, 2020
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Avissawella, Kosgama and Ruwanwella police areas have been declared as isolated areas with immediate effect, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said.
Meanwhile a decision had been taken to isolate Abhayapura Grama Niladari division and Jinna Nagar area in Trincomalee from 6.00 a.m. this morning (24).
Isolation status of ‘Laksanda Sevana’ in Wellampitiya had been lifted with effect from 6.00 am today.
However, a total of 228 new cases of Covid-19 had been reported from the Colombo District yesterday while 99 of them were identified in Avissawella areas.
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Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 12:15 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 24, Colombo: Head of the National Operations Center for the Prevention of the Spread of COVID-19, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva has informed that the Laksanda Sevana Housing Scheme in the Wellampitiya Police Division in the Colombo District has been lifted from isolation from 6.00 am today (24th December).
It has also been decided to isolate the Trincomalee Abhayapura Grama Niladhari Division and the Dinanagar area from 6.00 am Thursday (24).
The regions designated as isolated areas currently will remain isolated until further notice.
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