Commuters undergo COVID-19 swab tests at the fort main railway station amid of the coronavirus pandemic in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 12 October 2020. Sri Lankan government implement a curfew in some parts of the country due to a sudden spike of the Covid-19 cluster from a textiles factory in the Gampaha District. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Sri Lankans watch as some attempt to push a beached whale back to deep waters in the Indian Ocean in Panadura, on outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Sri Lanka is postponing the opening of schools amid a surge of COVID-19 patients from two clusters in the capital Colombo and suburbs. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





People look at a dead pilot whale stranded on a beach in Panadura, Sri Lanka, November 3, 2020. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





Sri Lanka's Navy rescue team members search for stranded pilot whales on a beach in Panadura, Sri Lanka, November 3, 2020. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





Sri Lankan volunteers try to push back a stranded short-finned pilot whale at the Panadura beach, 25 km south of the capital Colombo on November 2, 2020. Dozens of pilot whales washed ashore in Sri Lanka, officials said as volunteers struggled to push the animals back into deeper waters of the Indian Ocean and rescue them. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





Elephants forage for food at a rubbish dump encroaching on their jungle habitat in Oluvil, Sri Lanka in September 2020. Examination of dead elephants has revealed undigested polythene and other plastic waste. (Photo by Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images)





Sri Lankans health workers prepare to take swab samples of people to test for COVID-19 near a mobile testing vehicle outside a hospital in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, October 6, 2020. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A Sri Lankan vegetable seller pushes his cart past posters against a proposed constitutional amendment that would consolidate power in the president’s hands in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Sinhalese reads “No to 20 even with amendments”. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Police officers wearing protective gear stand in formation near the parliament during a protest against a proposed constitution amendment, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A bread vendor rides on a vehicle along a street in Colombo on November 1, 2020, after a three-day curfew was announced to contain the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





A man wearing a facemask as a preventative measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus walks past a mural in Colombo on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





A Sri Lankan police officer stands at a crime scene following a shoot out between police officers and drug traffickers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, October 20, 2020. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Medical workers collect swab samples from residents to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Colombo on November 5, 2020. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





Sri Lankan police officers check vehicles in a checkpoint during a quarantine curfew, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 in Colombo on October 25, 2020. (Photo by Saman Abesiriwardana/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)





A municipal worker sprays disinfectant at the central bus terminal amid the coronavirus pandemic in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 26 October 2020. Sri Lankan government implement a curfew in some parts of the country due to a sudden spike of the Covid-19 cluster from a fish market in Colombo. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Security personnel stop motorists at a checkpoint in Divulapitiya on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on October 4, 2020, as police imposed a curfew on the towns of Minuwangoda and Divulapitiya following the discovery of a coronavirus patient, the first case reported from the community after several weeks. Sri Lanka has reported 3,395 cases with 13 deaths since the first COVID-19 case was detected in the island on January 27. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Sri Lankan commuters wearing face masks wait to get in to the train at the Fort Railway Station, Colombo, Sri Lanka, on October 05, 2020. Sri Lankan authorities closed schools countrywide and imposed a curfew on Sunday in three suburbs in Western Province, after a person tested positive for the coronavius following which 81 new Covid19 positive cases were reported so far today (05) in Sri Lanka. (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A Sri Lankan student wearing a protective mask heads towards the exam center as his mother (L) checks his bag after handing over the admission papers and food near an examination center for Grade-5 scholarship exam at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 11 October 2020. (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A health worker sprays disinfectant at Slave Island railway station as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Colombo on October 30, 2020 after a three-day curfew was announced to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)