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The Government has planned to open up the country within two months after vaccinating its citizens at least with a single dose, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunge said today.
He told Parliament that more than three million people who are engaged in the tourism sector are facing numerous hardships due to the pandemic situation in the country.
Responding to a question raised by JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on the issues in the tourism s
ector, the Minister said the country has to be opened up to find long-term solutions to the issues faced by the people in the sector.
The Minister said countries such as Singapore has vaccinated 80% of its population and thus have been able to open the country and added that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has also stressed the need to open Sri Lanka within two months after all the people are vaccinated at least with a single jab.
He said tourism was further crippled after the third wave and pointed out that there was no report that the tourists who had visited the country recently under Bio-bubble had resulted in the spread of Covid-19.
The Minister said the new health guidelines issued by the Director General of Health Services allowed tourists who are fully vaccinated to travel within Sri Lanka without being quarantined for 14 days. (Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)
Joshua Thursday, 08 July 2021 02:16 PM
ha haaa with Basil's blessings. Who will come to this land ?
European Thursday, 08 July 2021 02:29 PM
Not us, because when we return to Europe, we have to go in quarantaine here anyway. And you can open up the country, but as long as Srilankans are not vaccinated or vaccinated with only crap Sinopharm, our governments will advise not to travel to Sri Lanka.
niromi Thursday, 08 July 2021 03:06 PM
NO ONE, UNLESS SRI LANKA GETS RID OF SINOPHARM, AS IT DOES NOT WORK !!
gonbada Thursday, 08 July 2021 03:11 PM
Haah... you can open, but no one will come unless country has clear agenda to implement human rights, freedom of speech and provide security to all citizen. Otherwise, you will not get any visitors form any country who values democracy.
RoaringCreek Thursday, 08 July 2021 03:41 PM
Soon Sri Lanka will runout of the Greek alphabet soon to name the COVID-19 variants.
Johan Thursday, 08 July 2021 03:51 PM
Nothing will happen last one year we saw your talks are only bluff
ravin Thursday, 08 July 2021 04:43 PM
Please let health authorities to access the situation as it arises and not politicos. We had experience at piliyandala.
Shan Thursday, 08 July 2021 05:07 PM
Firstly, ease the travel restrictions after that can talk about opening country
Sarath Thursday, 08 July 2021 09:03 PM
To European- You people are not the only tourists that come here!
Shan Thursday, 08 July 2021 09:36 PM
# Sarath: that is not what the European man or woman said.
Seb Friday, 09 July 2021 12:31 AM
There are plenty of people who would love to visit SL. People from the Netherlands do not require any quarantine back in NL when arriving from a 14 days stay in SL. I'm sure there are other EU countries with similar rules.
Raymindesoyza Friday, 09 July 2021 03:29 AM
We are confident Chines will come as a tourist . They will be happy to work in farm , dams for petty money . We get double benefits .
Bandula Friday, 09 July 2021 11:34 AM
We have the most nitwit ministers in the world. No qualifications, education, low intelligence. Sadly SL will remain backwards until this change
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