A man reacts as a health official uses a swab to collect a sample at a fish market during the curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Colombo April 22, 2020. — Reuters pic
Large crowds were seen jostling to bid farewell to Arumugam Thondaman, the leader of a tea plantation union and a government minister. Authorities had imposed a 24-hour curfew in an unsuccessful attempt to stop crowds from visiting Thondaman’s body. Large crowds had also gathered at the office of his Ceylon Worker’s Congress party in Colombo to view his body before the funeral procession went east for final rites.
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