Government declares multiple essential services

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The Sri Lankan Government has declared a number of essential services via an extraordinary gazette.

Accordingly, the following services have been declared as essential by order of the President:

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.