U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the Chinese Communist Party was operating as a “predator” in Sri Lanka, as the top U.S. diplomat kept up tough criticism of China on a tour of Asia.

A quarantine curfew will be imposed within the Western Province from 12 midnight tomorrow (October 29), stated the Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.

United States Secretary of State Michael Richard Pompeo (Mike Pompeo) has called on Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa a short while ago.

President of the Public Health Inspectors’ Association of Sri Lanka (PHIA), Upul Rohana, said the spread of COVID-19 in the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) area was ‘slightly out of control.’

With the rapid rise of COVID-19 patients and limited hospital beds fresh treatment measures were being adapted by the Government, a top official said yesterday, assuring that the Government would not hide announcing if the virus has reached community spread stage.

Quarantine curfew has been imposed in three police areas of Colombo and Kalutara districts with immediate effect, says the Commander of Army, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.

Secretary of State of United States, Michael Richard Pompeo (Mike Pompeo) has arrived in Sri Lanka a short while ago (27) for two-day bilateral discussions, says the U.S. Embassy in Colombo.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 27 October 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The Health Ministry has said that two more COVID-19 deaths have been reported from Sri Lanka, increasing the death toll to 19.

Another patient who tested positive for the Coronavirus has died today, marking the 17th death reported in Sri Lanka due to COVID-19.

China has raised objections to what it called US bullying of Sri Lanka after Washington said the Indian Ocean island must make “difficult but necessary choices” regarding its ties with China.

The JVP is currently staging a protest opposite the United States Embassy in Colombo against the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Police Media Spokesman, DIG Ajith Rohana, says as all public transport services have been suspended to the Colombo Fort and Pettah areas, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people should not travel to the said areas even by foot.

The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health yesterday declared 27 Public Health Inspectors (PHI) Divisions as high-risk areas for COVID-19 in the country, the ministry said.

The Secretary of State of the United States of America Mike R. Pompeo will undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka on October 27-28,2020, on an invitation extended by his Sri Lankan counterpart, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry said.