Sri Lanka to shut schools, govt offices for 2 weeks

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 19, 2022 12:40 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities on Friday announced a two-week shutdown of government offices and schools as public transport ground almost entirely to a halt due to a lack of dollars to pay for imported fuel.

The South Asian nation's public administration ministry ordered all departments, public institutions and local councils to maintain skeletal services from Monday in response to the acute shortage of gasoline and diesel.

NOWHERE TO GO Autorickshaw drivers and their vehicles form a line along a street to buy gasoline from a Ceylon petroleum corporation fuel station in Colombo on Friday, June 17, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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