Home quarantine for more than 150 returnees from Sri Lanka

National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has announced that 153 individuals returning via a Sri Lankan airlines flight tomorrow will be placed in home quarantine. 

The flight will be carrying 262 individuals from Sri Lanka who were left stranded due to COVID-19. NEOC spokesperson Mabrouq Azeez speaking in a presser tonight said that the returnees included students and people who had traveled to Sri Lanka for medical purposes. 

NEOC said that the HPA had sent the individual returnees a form to be filled for quarantine purposes which were not completed by many.

The flight is set to arrive tomorrow at 8:25. Among the returnees, there are people who wished to quarantine in 13 different atolls of the country. The arrangements for this would be conducted by MNDF. Those who had not specified their quarantine arrangements were also among the returnees. Those who cannot arrange home quarantine measures would be arranged by the state.

A flight carrying 283 Sri Lankans will also depart in the morning as well as a flight carrying 15 Sri Lankans later in the night.

Travel restrictions are being loosened in Sri Lanka and Malaysia now after control of the number of cases. Foreign Ministry is now working to arrange travel for locals studying in these countries to return back to these countries to continue studies. The countries currently do not allow foreign students to return.

Two flights to repatriate Maldivians in Malaysia have also been arranged for mid-June.