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Sri Lanka connected Monday (March 16, 2026) announced a four-day moving week — declaring Wednesdays disconnected — for authorities institutions, schools, and universities, to conserve substance arsenic the escalating tensions successful West Asia endanger a terrible vigor crisis.
Addressing a media league successful Colombo, the Commissioner General of Essential Services besides encouraged the backstage assemblage to see the enactment arsenic the land nation, similar galore others, braces for imaginable substance shortages. All authorities functions volition beryllium enactment connected clasp temporarily, officials said.
However, those employed successful indispensable services, including the wellness sector, ports, h2o proviso and customs departments, volition relation each days.
The announcement came a time aft the authorities switched to a QR code-aided integer system to ration retail substance sales, limiting play quotas to consumers according to the conveyance they use.
