Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is currently considering resuming day-to-day economic activity at the provincial level to safeguard the national economy, reports the President’s Media Division.
Rajapaksa has instructed the Provincial Directors of Health to issue recommendations to ensure normal activities in the industrial, agricultural and business sector through the Director-General of Health.
He further stated that relaxing restrictions will be considered at each province on a case by case basis.
Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has echoed calls to ease lockdown measures however the World Health Organisation has warned against relaxing such measures.
Read more: Wickremesinghe calls for partial lift of lockdown to safeguard economy
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