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Navy rehearses to fight COVID-19

In preparation to prevent coronavirus  (COVID-19) entering the country from ships at ports, Sri Lanka Navy conducted a drill at the Colombo port on Friday. The Navy conducted the drill to rehearse the Standard Operational Procedure that could be adopted in the event of transferring a suspected COVID-19 contracted patient from a ship to the relevant hospital ashore and quarantining a particular area on land

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