The number of COVID-19 cases diagnosed in Sri Lanka yesterday is the second-highest number of cases reported in Sri Lanka within a single day.
The number of cases of COVID-19 recorded on 15 November 2020 was 704 (Health Promotion Bureau COVID-19 dashboard).
However, 866 cases were reported on October 24 (WHO statistics)
Five deaths were reported on 15 November. All of them were from Colombo city.
Sri Lanka police say that a 35 years old man has been remanded until 18th November after producing before the Kandy Magistrate for posting fake content that says the Sri Lankans are dying on roadsides due to COVID-19.
The person has been arrested from Egodawatta in Kadugannawa in Kandy district and police media spokesman Deputy Inspector General of Police Ajith Rohana says that four more persons who shared this post are to be arrested.
The police media spokesman said that only one person had died on a roadside due to COVID-19 and he was a homeless person.
The investigations are carried out by the Cyber Crime Unit of Criminal Investigation Department.
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's elder brother and Minister Chamal Rajapaksa said to media that the cabinet had approved providing a suitable place to bury the dead bodies of Muslim persons who die with COVID-19. The Minister said that the decision had been taken at the last cabinet meeting held on Monday.
Meanwhile, Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that the cabinet had discussed the issue but not taken such a decision. He highlighted that no decision had been taken to change the present policy of cremating all COVID-19 dead bodies.
However, government MP Premnath C. Dolawatta said that he had complained to the acting Inspector General of Police against the letter by Ceylon Thawheed Jamath thanking the government for granting permission for the burial of the COVID-19 dead bodies of Muslims. He said that the letter was causing communal disharmony.
Three COVID-19 deaths were reported today so far in Sri Lanka.
A 41-year-old male patient died in National Institute of Infectious Diseases, aka IDH.
Two more patients died in the National Hospital in Colombo.
One of the deceased is a 19-year-old young man with chronic disability.
The other deceased is an elderly woman who had been hospitalised for an ailment on her leg.
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