Sri Lanka, March 29 -- More than 17,000 Sri Lankans living abroad have registered on the website which was launched with the corona virus pandemic.

This was according to a request made by the government of Sri Lanka.

The Ministry of Foreign relations said that 17,457 persons had registered on the Contact Sri Lanka website by yesterday afternoon.

There were 6,773 are Sri Lankans from the Middle East, 1,892 from Europe, 1,302 in South Asia and 1,028 in North America that registered with the website.

Meanwhile, 28 persons who had returned to Sri Lanka from overseas and sent to the Welikanda - Galkanda Quarantine Center were sent home today after completing the quarantine period.

According to our regional correspondent, 24 of them were f...