Gotabaya asks for debt moratorium due to coronavirus outbreak

<p>Sri Lanka's President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has requested "international donor agencies to provide a debt moratorium or debt deferment facility to all vulnerable developing nations to the COVID-19 risk," his office said in a statement.</p> <p>Gotabaya asked the Director General of the World Health Organisation to forward his request to multi-lateral and bilateral lending agencies. &nbsp;</p> <p>EconomyNext <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=…"><u>reported</u></a> that Sri Lanka has over 4.8 billion US dollars to repay this year but Sri Lanka's economy has been hit by the global pandemic, cripppling it's exports.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>