Religious activities and tuition classes permitted to recommence

The Director General of Health Service Dr. Anil Jasinghe has issued an announcement on reopening places of religious worship to devotees and the recommencement of tuition classes in the country, under strict guidelines. 

1. Religious Places

Permission is granted for assembles at religious places from Friday, June 12, 2020 subject to the following restrictions:

• The maximum number that any religious place of worship can gather while maintaining the social distance (Including buildings and open spaces of the religious place) is limited to 50 persons.
• However, for religious places where there is no room for at least 50 persons to gather maintaining the social distance, only half the number of people can gather at the premises can stay at one time.

2. Tuition Classes

Tuition classes will be allowed to start from June 29, 2020, subject to the following restrictions:

• Maintaining the social distance depending on space available in the class, the maximum number permitted to attend a tuition class is limited to 100 students.
• However, in case of tuition classes that do not have classrooms / room facilities for 100 students, only half the number of students can attend are allowed.

All these permissions are granted subject to full compliance by all the parties with the guidelines issued to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the release said.

Correction: The Government Information Department had initially said that tuition classes would be permitted to resume from June 15, however it later issued an amendment stating this date has been amended as June 29.