Three sectors declared essential by gazette

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued an extraordinary gazette notification declaring three sectors as essential public services.

1. All services connected to the supply of electricity

2. The supply or distribution of petroleum products and fuel

3. All service, work, or labour, of any description whatsoever, necessary or required to be done in connection with the maintenance, and the reception, care feeding and treatment, of patients in hospitals, nursing homes, dispensaries, and other similar institution.