The report further said the doctor had told that a part of these COVID-19 cases is connected to Brandix and Peliyagoda fish market clusters.
The percentage is over 17%.
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He will hold bilateral discussions with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The visit to Sri Lanka is a part of the US top official's diplomatic tour in South and South-Eastern Asia. He is visiting India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.
Pompeo will leave Sri Lanka tomorrow. The government stated that his entourage including security, media and other officials were following strict quarantine regulations.
Lady Ridgway Hospital situated in Borella in the Colombo city is the main children's hospital in Sri Lanka and children in critical conditions from the areas island-wide are treated there.
The Director said that the disease had spread to the hospital from the COVID-19 infected persons of Peliyagoda fish market.
So far, the government quarantined the associates of COVID-19 persons in military-run quarantine centres.
By now, the country has reached 90% of the capacity in hospitals for COVID-19 patients.
Meanwhile, Government Medical Officers' Association proposed the government to treat the patients with less complications at home while admitting only the patients with complications into hospitals.
He pointed out that when there is a social spread, the career of virus related to individual patients cannot be traced.
Wildlife Conservation Department of Sri Lanka reported the discovery of a rare albino python from a farm in Ritigala in
the North Central Province.
The wildlife officials of Ritigala Beat Wildlife Office took the reptile into their safe custody with the hope of releasing it into a suitable wildlife park.
The female albino is about 2 meters and 60 centimeters and about 10 to 12 years old.
This is believed the first albino python recorded in Sri Lanka.
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Addressing a press conference held in the SLPP headquarters today, the Minister stated that the report would be based for bringing the persons who are responsible for the disaster before law and also to prevent the possibility of recurrence of such terrorist attacks in future.
The government would focus on the necessary legal reforms as well as strengthening the military administration further, the Minister stated.
Over 250 people died and 500 people were injured in the series of attacks launched by extremists led by Zahran Hashim targeting the Christian churches of Sri Lanka on 21 April, 2019.
Sri Lankan civil society is silently but strongly marking their protest against the government's inhuman forcible cremation of a 20-da...
