Travel restrictions removed tomorrow midnight

The police media spokesman of Sri Lanka, Deputy Inspector General of Police Ajith Rohana said to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation that the travel restrictions on the Western Province would be withdrawn since midnight November 15.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructed to impose travel restrictions on the Western Province at the daily meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force held in the Presidential Secretariat on November 11.

The travel restriction was imposed since midnight of November 11. All the trains, buses and private vehicles were stopped at the boundaries of the Western Province. 

Are Sri Lanka President's travel restrictions mere words?

Sri Lanka President directed officials to prevent travel outside of Western Province because COVID-19 spread more in the province. 

The President gave this instruction at the daily meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force held in the Presidential Secretariat today (November 11). However, the President\"s instruction was not highlighted in the President\"s Facebook post about the meeting as well as in the media reports. 

President told at the cabinet meeting held in the last week of October also that the country would not be shut down due to COVID-19 spread. Instead, travel restrictions would be imposed in areas the disease is spread more. 

A circular issued by the President\"s office on October 29 stated that Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts of Western Province were under travel restrictions. 

However, the travel restrictions appear as withdrawn with the curfew on November 9. 

Update: Army Commander Shavendra Silva said that according to the travel restrictions imposed on the Western Province, no one can go out of the Province until Sunday, 15 November.