Sri Lanka's health authorities have issued new tough guidelines, including banning wedding receptions and gatherings at religious sites, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as the Island nation continued to record a spike in daily infections.For the fifth on Friday, the daily number of cases reported crossed the 1,000-mark.The country recorded several cases of the UK variant which has a bigger mortality rate, health officials said.“We continue to monitor and place isolations on critical areas," Army chief Gen Shavendra Silva, the head of Covid prevention, said.He said the government was reluctant to order blanket lockdowns due to possible adverse economic impacts.Under the new guidelines, wedding receptions will not be permitted until.