Sri Lanka, April 6 -- Working in strict alignment with guidelines set by health officials to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hayleys Plantations sector initiated several measures to ensure that the daily needs of all its employees were met, while rolling out a set of strict health and safety regulations to be followed in the field, factories and estate premises.

Accordingly, the company provided its entire plantation work force community and their families - a population of 140,000 people, with dry rations and food packs through estate worker housing cooperative societies which were delivered directly to the estates in order to safeguard the community during the ongoing curfew. Additionally, steps were taken to clean and disinfect est...