President wants to get to the bottom of issues

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has warned state officials and those responsible to directly inform him if there were any matters regarding COVID situation instead of making statements to media and creating fear among people. He said this during a meeting with the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of COVID-19 at the Presidential Secretariat

 

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that steps should be taken to keep factories, pharmacies, shipping lines open and continue the production in bakeries as well as the distribution of food items during the travel restricted period.

 

The President also instructed the relevant authorities to distribute essential food items to the public without any shortage using mobile services at the divisional level.
Sathosa will be the center of operations and it will employ recruits from the 100,000 job opportunity programme to pack essential goods in its  Sathosa warehouses island-wide.