Sri Lanka ‘hopeful’ to be off UK red list by September Sri Lanka is ‘hopeful’ it will be removed from the UK red list by September. The country’s high commissioner to the UK, Saroja Sirisena, hailed Sri Lanka’s “phenomenal” healthcare response and said she was hopeful the country was “on track” to make it off the UK’s red list from September. Sirisena told Travel Weekly that when a country has gone through something, it comes out better prepared for things in the future. “We have been really disciplined [with Covid]. Our approach was criticised by some because we got the military involved to handle some sections of the operation, but we moved really quickly. We shut our airports and wouldn’t even let Sri Lankan nationals back in. The army set up hospitals in 10 days, and our healthcare system was phenomenal. “There were about 20,000 Brits who actually opted to stay in ...

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