State Minister Chanaka says Over 15,000 PCR tests conducted at BOI factories

State Minister of Aviation and Investment Zone Development Minister D. V. Chanaka said that over 15,000 PCR tests had been conducted at the factories operating under the Board of Investment (BOI), during the past few days.
He said 10,000 were done within the investment zones and 5,000 outside them, following the second wave of the Corona pandemic.

PCRs have been conducted on workers covering each and every factory in accordance to the Health Ministry guidelines. He said that the ministry is focused on ensuring the safety of the workforce as well as uninterrupted continuation of the production process.

He said the BOI had been getting ready during the past few months to face such an eventuality. Also, He said that many health safety programmes had been conducted in every Investment Zone with the assistance of the Ministry of Health, MRI