COLOMBO: Saudi bound domestic aides will have the facility of obtaining the Covid vaccine from that country itself, Assistant General Manager of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, Mangala Randeniya said here on Sunday.
Randeniya also said some 150 expatriate domestic aides have died due to COVID-19 within the past two years.
“We can only obtain information from about 17 countries that we send domestic aides and according to the statistics about 150 Sri Lankan domestic aides have died due to COVID-19 during the past two years.”
“However, most of those who were infected with COVID-19 so far have recovered, and a majority of Sri Lankans working overseas have obtained the COVID-19 vaccine as well. ” The Media Spokesperson of SLBFE said.
