Curfew temporarily lifted except for 8 districts

23 March 2020 06:25 am

The police curfew in the country has been lifted at 6 am today except in eight districts and will re-imposed 2 pm today.

Last Friday, the government imposed police curfew covering the entire country until 6 am on Monday. Later the government decided to extended the curfew in eight districts- Colombo, Gampha, Puttalam, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi and Jaffna districts- until 6 am tomorrow (24).