Sri Lanka, March 30 -- A special meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Essential Services, empowered with the responsibility to take decisions on maintaining civilian life amid COVID 19 outbreak, was held at temple trees today.

The members reviewed the progress of the ongoing efforts to maintain essential services and discussed measures that should be taken in future, the Task Force in a press communique said.

The following areas and subjects had come under special scrutiny;

. A review of the current measures taken to provide essential food to people who have money at hand but are unable to make purchases due to deficiencies in the delivery system.

. A review of the new measures taken to deliver medicine with the support of the po...