Sri Lanka’s 2 international airports will be fully operational from Jan. 21

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities announced the country’s two international airports will be fully operational starting Jan. 21 after 10 months and will fully open the country for tourists, according to The Associated Press.

Sri Lanka closed the two main international airports in March because of the coronavirus.

Last month, Sri Lanka launched a one-month pilot project to re-open the country for tourism while opening the two airports. Hundreds of tourists arrived from Ukraine in a “travel bubble.”

Sri Lanka’s total confirmed cases since March are nearing 46,000 with at least 215 confirmed deaths.

Meanwhile,  Britain’s statistics office says about one in every 50 people in England had the coronavirus in the last week.