Sri Lanka's COVID-19 patients surpass 2,100 as 57 new cases detected

Source: Xinhua| 2020-07-10 00:45:34|Editor: huaxia

COLOMBO, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka surpassed 2,100 on Thursday after 57 new patients tested positive for the virus, the government information department said in a statement.

According to the statement, the new patients included 56 inmates from a drug rehabilitation center in Kandakadu in north central Sri Lanka while one was a female instructor at the center who was on leave and residing in Marawila, in the north western province.

All the remaining inmates at the rehabilitation center have been transported for a 14-day mandatory quarantine to the Kandakadu Quarantine Center along with all instructors and their family members.

The government information department said that out of the total 600 inmates at the rehabilitation center, 450 had undergone PCR tests while the remaining would be tested on Friday.

Health authorities from the Health Ministry ruled out that the new cases would spark a second wave of the virus in the island country, saying Sri Lanka had recorded an over 90 percent recovery rate from the COVID-19.

According to official statistics, out of the 2,154 positive patients detected in the country to date since March, 1,979 patients had recovered and successfully been discharged.

A total of 11 deaths have been reported from the virus.

Sri Lanka is all set to re-open its international airports next month as authorities had successfully contained the virus spread. Enditem

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