Sri Lankan customs workers unload illegal import vehicles from a confiscated container at the customs examination yard in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 12 January 2021. According to Sri Lanka Customs, The Customs Risk Management Unit took into custody 12 motor vehicles being smuggled into Sri Lanka while concealed in cargo containers and declaring the cargo as electrical generator parts. The cargo valued at Sri Lankan rupees 55 million (Euros 238,952.91/ USD 290,650.47) has been imported while fraudulently using the name of an official in the UK High Commission in Colombo. With the Sri Lankan government restricting the import of several items, including motor vehicles, three-wheelers, motorcycles etc. some resort to dubious means to smuggle in vehicles. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Sri Lankan military personnel with the army cultural troupe march wearing traditional dresses and holding national flags during the Sri Lanka's 73rd Independence Day celebrations in Colombo on February 4, 2021. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





A Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil Hindu devotee performs religious rituals at a temple on New Year's day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, January 1, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Sri Lankan municipal health workers take swab samples from residents to test for COVID-19 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, December 30, 2020. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A street vendor selling freshwater fish waits for customers in Kalutara on the outskirts of Colombo on February 24, 2021. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





Sri Lankan military personnel march during the Sri Lanka's 73rd Independence Day celebrations in Colombo on February 4, 2021. (Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP Photo)





A Sri Lankan airport worker in protective suit walks inside a terminal at the Katunayake International Airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Sri Lanka's tourism minister said that the airports in the country will be reopened for tourists according to health guidelines from Jan.21. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A street vendor wearing a face mask uses his mobile phone while waiting for customers at his food stall near a beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka on January 12, 2021. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





A mahout walks a tusker along a busy road in Colombo, Sri Lanka on January 19, 2021. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





Sri Lankan health workers get disinfected after a cremation of COVID -19 victims at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, February 10, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A burqa clad Sri Lankan Muslim woman walks in a street of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Sri Lanka on Saturday announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A Buddhist devotee lights incense sticks as they offer prayers during Poya, a full moon religious festival, at the Kelaniya Buddhist temple in Kelaniya on December 29, 2020. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





People gather at a pier during sunset at Galle Face Beach in Colombo on January 2, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Health workers collect a swab sample from a resident to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Colombo on January 4, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil Hindu devotees decorate the entrance to their house in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, January 1, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Sri Lankan municipal workers carry the coffin of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, January 22, 2021. Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to stop the system from collapsing. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Sri Lankan army soldiers march during the Independence Day parade rehearsal at Independence Square in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 02 February 2021. Sri Lanka will celebrate the 73rd anniversary of independence from British colonial rule on 04 February. Independence Day is also known as the National Day of Sri Lanka. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Sri Lankan children's play with soap bubbles at the Galle Face sea promenade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 14 February 2021. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Men hold fishing rods wait for their catch on top of a rock in the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka on February 10, 2021. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)