(Updated) An employee of a garment factory in Rajagiriya has tested positive for Covid -19 today, a senior officer of the Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council said.
Chief Medical Officer of Kotte MC, Manoj Rodrigo said that 27 employees who were working at the garment factory would be subjected to PCR tests.
The infected worker is a 30-year-old resident of Mirigama. Results of PCR tests conducted on other garment factory employees who are her close contacts are expeted tomorrow.
The woman on Wednesday had tried to get herself admitted to the Castle Hospital on Wednesday due to a complication in her pregnancy, but as she had not obtained leave from her work place at Rajagiriya she had returned to the factory to apply for leave.
On return to the hospital, a PCR test was carried out and it was detected that she was COVID positive. Thereafter she was transferred to the IDH hospital for treatment.
Her husband too had stayed in the Rajagiriya area and persons in the house where she stayed too have been put on quarantine. Meanwhile, the Kotte MC's meeting was adjourned today after the incident was reported while the meeting was in progress.
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