<span style="color: #222222;">In Sri Lanka, the ongoing curfew in four high-risk districts including Colombo has been further extended till 4th of May in a bid to tackle COVID crisis. Earlier, the curfew in these districts was to end on Monday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">President's office said, the curfew in Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttalam districts will be eased from 4th of May in order to facilitate the functioning of public and private sector institutions. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It said, the curfew in rest of 21 districts will see relaxation from 5 A.M. to 8 P.M. and will be lifted from 1st of May. Curfew in these low risk districts was relaxed on weekdays this week but was re-imposed at the weekend.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">   </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, 15 fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported today bringing the number of active cases to 312. Seven persons have dies and 116 recovered out of total 435 infections so far. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The country has seen a surge in cases this week with over 170 cases reported since Monday. The maximum number of 52 cases were reported yesterday which included 35 Navy personnel.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In related development, another batch of 163 Sri Lankan students, who were stranded in Mumbai were repatriated this afternoon. Another batch of 101 Sri Lankan students were repatriated from Amritsar yesterday.</span><br />''  <br />