Legal action will be taken against the drivers and the owners of the vehicles transporting schoolchildren without following health instructions, Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana stated.
DIG Rohana noted that children should not be permitted to remove their face masks when travelling in vehicles. He further stated that the risk for COVID-19 is yet to be eliminated from the country and that drivers and conductors of school transport are expected to be more vigilant in this regard.
The Education Ministry issued a special circular with health guidelines to re-open Western Province school today. According to the circular issued by the Education Ministry, classes with less than 15 students can be conducted on a daily basis. And also, classes with 16-30 students will have to be divided into two groups and conducted week after week.
Classes with 30 or more students will have to be divided into three groups and classes must be conducted equal number of days.
