The Mayoress of Colombo Rosy Senanayake, Municipal Commissioner Roshanie Dissanayake and all the Colombo Municipal Councillors have been referred to PCR tests, says the Chief Medical Officer CMC, Dr Ruwan Wijayamuni.

The move came as a precautionary measure following the detection of a Covid-19 case within the CMC, he added.

It was reported that a Senior Management Assistant of CMC’s Public Assistance Department had tested positive for the virus on Thursday (15).

Dr Wijayamuni noted that the Mayoress, Municipal Commissioner and all the councillors who attended the Finance Committee meeting of CMC on Wednesday (14) were accordingly directed to PCR tests. 

The CMC meanwhile decided to restrict the members of the public entering its municipality building until the 31st of October, due to Covid-19 outbreak.

In a notice, the Municipal Commissioner said all applications requiring the services of CMS will be accepted by the Single Window counter located outside the municipality building.

It further read that, payments of property tax can be made through the People’s Bank and Bank of Ceylon branches within Colombo.

Other payments such as rates payments, trade tax, tax on businesses, market rental, house rental, shops and boutiques rental, hawkers’ rental can be made via https://www.colombo.mc.gov.lk using credit, Master, Visa or Amaerican Express cards or Dialog eZ-cash, the notice read further.

The CMC says Commercial Bank account holders are given the opportunity to pay taxes via its online banking service.

For more information the following contacts numbers have been introduced by the CMC: 0115 676 346 / 077 039 9825 / 017 923 2433 / 071 823 4717