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Sri Lanka COVID-19 cases rise to 2072 with 3 new cases Saturday

By: AswathyNair

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases rose to 2072 today with three more persons testing positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry said.

According to the Epidemiology Unit report, as of 6 pm Saturday, 176 patients are receiving treatment at hospitals. Another 46 Individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.

Eleven patients have died while 1,885 patients including the Chinese tourist, who was the first COVID-19 case detected in the country in January, have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

A total of 112,024 PCR tests have been conducted to detect Covid-19 infected persons from February 18 to July 03, according to the Health Promotion Bureau report.

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