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Govt asks public to support efforts to prevent spread of Coronavirus
The Government has asked the public to support its efforts at preventing the Coronavirus in Sri Lanka.
Issuing a media release, the Presidential Secretariat confirmed this morning that the first Sri Lankan patient in the country diagnosed with Covid-19, the disease that is caused by the novel Coronavirus, was found yesterday. Qutoting Director General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe, it stated that the individual is a 52-year-old tour guide who had served as a tour guide to a group of Italian tourists.
The patient is currently being treated at the IDH hospital and work has already commenced on gathering details on where the tour group went and people they came into contact with.
The Government also requested all those coming from South Korea, Italy and Iran to give their fullest cooperation to the measures it has put in place to prevent the spread of the virus in the country. As part of these efforts, all those coming from these countries, where the Coronavirus is spreading rapidly, are being subjected to 14 days of mandatory quarantine.
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