Manning Market to be shifted to Peliyagoda from Monday

By Ifham Nizam

Plans are underway to temporarily move Manning Market wholesale/retail business to a building in Peliyagoda due to COVID-19 concerns after a large number of workers in Pettah involved in loading and unloading of vegetables and fruit tested positive for coronavirus.

Police Spokesperson, DIG Ajith Rohana yesterday said the vegetable wholesale/retail market operations at the Peliyagoda site would commence next Monday (16) at Peliyagoda.

Health authorities have also instructed all workers of the Manning Market to undergo PCR testing at their earliest if they have not already undergone it, for them to operate from the new site at Peliyagoda.

DIG Rohana said that if any worker, attached to the Manning Market, who had not undergone a PCR test, had to contact the Senior Superintendent of Police in-charge of the Colombo Central Division, SSP Nishantha Chandrasekera via 0718 59 15 51, who would arrange a test.

The Deputy Inspector General said the authorities had decided to deploy some 100 Civil Security officers to help the distribution activities at the marketplace until the return of porters.