• It was closed over the weekend

The Liberty Plaza Management Council said that operations at the mall had returned to normal from yesterday after all the first contacts had been sent to quarantine.   A council member told Daily Mirror that the Liberty Plaza was shut during the weekend but had resumed operations from Monday after the entire premises had been disinfected.  

Earlier the area Medical Officer of Health (MOH) said the Liberty Plaza Shopping Complex in Kollupitiya had been closed after several persons were detected with the COVID-19.   According to the MOH, initially, several security officers were found infected with the virus while several other employees working in several shops were identified as COVID-19 infected following PCR tests.  The operators at the complex had closed down their shops till the first contacts were traced and were subject to PCR tests.(DSB)