Sri Lanka, March 29 -- As health care officials continue to work around the clock, treating patients and carrying out awareness campaigns the Military, Police and other essential services have been instrumental in combating the disease. This week many who were in quarantine after arriving from abroad were allowed to return home on completing the required quarantine period.

On Friday 501 persons at the Diyatalawa, Kandakadu and Punani centres were allowed to return home. "I returned to Sri Lanka from Milan and was in quarantine at the Kandakadu Quarantine Center" a returnee from Italy told the media. According to him, the Army had treated them well. "I thank the Sri Lanka Army," he said adding that Sri Lanka seems visibly safer than Italy...