{"id":122422,"date":"2022-01-27T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T00:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122422"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T00:40:43","slug":"new-guidelines-issued-for-travellers-arriving-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/27\/new-guidelines-issued-for-travellers-arriving-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"New guidelines issued for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services today (January 27) issued new guidelines for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka from overseas during the pandemic of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the guidelines, foreign national passport holders who do not possess a valid visa must obtain a landing permit\/visa from the Department of Immigration &amp; Emigration prior to their departure from overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, they are required to have travel insurance of at least USD 50,000 including cover for hospitalized treatment for Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guidelines specified that the period of stay in Sri Lanka and additional 14 days should be covered by the insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Refer to the guidelines below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/555287516\/2022-01-27-Quarantine-Measures-for-Travellers-Arriving-From-Overseas-During-the-Pandemic-of-COVID-19#from_embed\">2022-01-27- Quarantine Measures for Travellers Arriving From Overseas During the Pandemic of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/91626333\/Ada-Derana#from_embed\">Ada Derana<\/a>\u00a0on Scribd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/html.scribdassets.com\/812esu0hog9h2igt\/images\/1-3169b9d921.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services today (January 27) issued new guidelines for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka from overseas during the pandemic of Covid-19. As per the guidelines, foreign national passport holders who do not possess a valid visa must obtain a landing permit\/visa from the Department of Immigration &amp; Emigration prior to [&hellip;]<\/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-122422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122422","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=122422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}