The GCE Advanced Level examination is being held islandwide amid the Covid-19 without any problem and the examination will end successfully, Family Health Bureau (FHB) Director Dr. Chithramalee De Silva said.
She told a press briefing at the Health Promotion Bureau in Colombo on Friday that Covid-19 infected students sit the examination in 29 centres while receiving medical treatment and suspected students who have symptoms or who are from quarantined families sit the examination in separate halls.
The infected children were admitted to the centres one day prior to their examination and they will be released from the centres after seven days when they become negative for Covid-19, she said.
The examination will be held without any issue for healthy, suspected and infected students due to the successful strategy introduced to prevent Covid-19, she added.