The Election Commission will select a date fourteen days from the 30th of April 2020 as the day for the poll and the Gazette notification publicizing this date would be issued by the Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya. The official gazette notification on the has been issued yesterday (21).

The Sri Lankan government has banned all passenger flights and ships into the country with the aim of preventing the Coronavirus from entering the country.

A special operations centre has been established at the Excise Department to entertain public complaints which could be accessed on their hotline 1913.

Over 338 persons have been arrested for violating curfew island-wide from 6.00 am on Friday to 9.00 am today (22), according to the Police Media Spokesperson.