The total number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Sri Lanka has increased to 178 today with two more persons tested positive while 257 persons are under observation at National Institute of Infectious Diseases (IDH), Health Promotion Bureau of Health Ministry said. With four persons fully recovered today, totally 38 persons had been recovered and discharged.
According to the Epidemiology unit statistics, seventeen individuals have been recovered and discharged from IDH and 135 active patients are currently admitted to the special ward. Five patients died due to COVID-19 while another Chinese tourist who was identified in January left the country after fully recovered.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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