Sri Lankans, wearing masks and social distancing, flock to voting centres for parliament election
FILE PHOTO: Sri Lankan police and election officials wearing protective masks load ballot boxes and papers onto buses from a distribution center to polling stations ahead of the country's parliamentary election scheduled for August 5, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte -/File Photo
“There will be no chance of you getting infected by the coronavirus at polling stations,” said the chairman of the Election Commission, Mahinda Deshapriya. Rajapaksa, who was elected president in November, has claimed credit for controlling the outbreak with strict lockdowns. They are best known for crushing ethnic minority Tamil separatist insurgents who battled for decades for a homeland in the island’s north and east.
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