{"id":101432,"date":"2020-04-22T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101432"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:48:15","slug":"health-clearance-may-be-needed-for-all-future-arrivals-at-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/22\/health-clearance-may-be-needed-for-all-future-arrivals-at-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Health clearance may be needed for all future arrivals at Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgAsia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Tourists arriving in Sri Lanka in the future must be armed with Covid-19 health clearance certificates approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and be subjected to rapid testing at the airport, under a set of new proposals to revive tourism in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors must clear a WHO-designated health test two weeks prior to arrival and pass a rapid health test at the airport before they will be allowed to get to immigration counters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Proposals for a new immigration process have been made to ensure arriving tourists have a clean bill of health<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Under the proposed measures, future visitors will also need to book their accommodation in advance. Hotels will need to be certified as being Covid-19 prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detailing these measures in a webinar with other industry experts on Tuesday, Sri Lanka Tourism chairperson Kimarli Fernando added that a new visa process will also be implemented while visa-on-arrival will be terminated. The government is also deliberating the possibility of issuing five-year visas to encourage visitors to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow speakers expressed hopes that Sri Lanka\u2019s success in taming the viral spread \u2013 through a month-long countrywide lockdown and rigorous testing \u2013 will encourage travellers to regard Sri Lanka as a safe and healthy destination to visit once it is safe to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, Sri Lanka has 309 cases, 100 recoveries and seven fatalities out of a population of 21.6 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgAsia Tourists arriving in Sri Lanka in the future must be armed with Covid-19 health clearance certificates approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and be subjected to rapid testing at the airport, under a set of new proposals to revive tourism in the country. Visitors must clear a WHO-designated health test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}