Recently, the COVID-19 situation in South Asia is becoming more and more complex and severe. After the traditional New Year holiday in April, the epidemic situation in Sri Lanka deteriorated sharply with a high number of newly confirmed cases and deaths in a single day. In order to ensure the health and safety of passengers to China, avoid the risk of cross-border transmission of Covid-19, the relevant particulars are notified as follows:
From now on, this Embassy will suspend the issuing of green health codes/ health declaration codes for the passengers from the third countries bound for China via Sri Lanka, and only issue green health codes/ health declaration codes to the passengers who work and live in Sri Lanka. Please adjust your itinerary and change your air ticket in time if you have the plan to travel from the third country to China via Sri Lanka .If the passengers insist on coming to China via Sri Lanka, all the loss shall be borne by their own.
Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka
June 4, 2021