Colombo, March 13 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has announced that it has banned passengers from 11 countries from visiting Sri Lanka to prevent the COVID-19 from spreading in the country.
Accordingly, all passengers from France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden and Austria will be banned for two weeks with effect from March 15.
Earlier Friday, the CAA announced that passengers from South Korea, Iran and Italy had been banned from visiting Sri Lanka for 2 weeks.
Chairman of CAA, Upul Dharmasena, issuing a statement said that during the aforementioned period, all airlines were strongly instructed not to board any passengers, who were either originating from the listed countries or who had been to these countries within the last 14 days, on any of their flights destined to Sri Lanka.