An emergency situation has been declared at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle due to the surge of COVID-19 patients being admitted to the hospital.
Director of Karapitiya Teaching Hospital Dr. Shelton Perera in a risk alert to all doctors and heads of units said that the health care staff at the hospital are presently at risk due to COVID patients reporting from other wards/units of the hospital.
He directed the doctors to give priority to only patients with severe COVID symptoms, and those who are asymptomatic should be advised to home-quarantine after informing the regional Epidemiology Unit and the area Medical officer of Health (MOH).
(By Sirangika Lokukarawita, Galle)
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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