COLOMBO : The PCR test laboratory at the Bandaranaike International Airport which has been halted temporarily due to a technical snag will be resumed shortly.
The operations have been halted owing to several technical difficulties that arose in the system which issues test reports to tourists.
Due to this, test samples of arriving local and foreign nationals are collected at the airport itself and sent to the facility for laboratory procedures and reports issued within four hours of arrival.
When contacted the Ministry of Tourism stated that the technical problems will be resolved and the collection of test samples will resumed as quickly as possible.
Situated near the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), the largest PCT testing facility in the country was officially declared open on Saturday (September 25).
The facility was built jointly by the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) (PVT) Limited, and a private company, at the cost of $5 million, to carry out PCR tests on fully vaccinated local and foreign air passengers.
