The prevailing situation in the country had greatly hampered the monthly receipt of medication of retired and serving naval personnel as well as their family members who are attending clinics in Navy General Hospital Colombo.

Taking in to account a basic concept mooted by an inventor, Mr. Thushara Kelum Wadasinghe, the Navy’s Research and Development Unit developed a remote-controlled smart appliance called ‘Medi Mate’ in a bid to treat and test COVID-19 patients, allowing healthcare workers to remain at a safe distance from the highly infectious virus.

The Navy recovered approximately 1kg and 400g of Kerala cannabis, during a patrol conducted in the seas off Kakkativu island in Mannar, today (8^th April 2020).

SL Navy assisted providing food and drinking water to a couple who was distressed on a foreign yacht anchored in the seas off Galle due to a technical fault of the vessel while sailing across the Southern seas, on 07^th April 2020.

The Ceyline Holdings Pvt Ltd today (08^th April 2020) temporarily handed over its Ruwala Resort in Kalpitiya to the Sri Lanka Navy to be used as a quarantine centre. Accordingly, this 31 - room resort in Kalpitiya will be utilized as a quarantine centre by the Navy during the current crisis faced by the nation.

A person with 36.93g of Kerala cannabis was apprehend during a operation carried out by Navy in coordination with SL Police, at Sippikulama area in Hambanthota, on 7^th April 2020.

To combat the spread of the new coronavirus in the country, the Navy conducted several sterilization programmes in a few places at Karaitivu and the Department of Pensions in Colombo on 06^th and 07^th April 2020.

Authorities were forced to lock down the Atalugama area in Bandaragama and Dharga Town ordering the residents to self-isolate after finding persons contracted novel coronavirus from those areas.

Sri Lanka Navy has planed to conduct musical programmes for the entertainment and to expel the stress and loneliness of self quarantined residents of flats in Colombo district, onwards 5^th April 2020,

The prevailing situation in the country had greatly hampered the monthly receipt of medication of retired and serving naval personnel as well as their family members who are attending clinics in Naval Hospitals.