Sri Lanka, May 5 -- Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued revised 'Operational guidelines on the preparedness and response for COVID- 19 outbreak for banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions' (NBFI), considering the sector's high vulnerability for the transmission of the virus due to the nature of services provided.
On April 28th, the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr. Asela Gunawardana circulated fresh guidelines in a nine-page document to be followed by banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions by revising the 'Operational Guidelines on preparedness and response for COVID- 19 outbreak for banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions' circulated in November 2020 in the wake of the third-wave of COVID infection in the country.
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