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By Shailendree Wickrama Adittiya
Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 detections rose to 536,645 with the detection of 561 COVID-19 patients yesterday.
The patients detected yesterday were from the New Year cluster. According to the Health Promotion Bureau, 5,920 PCR tests were conducted yesterday.
On Sunday, 6,682 PCR tests and 2,715 rapid antigen tests were conducted and 555 COVID-19 patients were detected. This includes 550 persons from the New Year cluster and five persons from the Prisons cluster.
A total of 431,997 patients from the New Year cluster and 9,048 patients from the Prisons cluster have been detected to date, along with 82,785 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster and 3,059 patients from the Divulapitiya cluster.
The country’s imported cases include 6,953 Sri Lankans and 328 foreigners.
The district distribution of COVID-19 detections shows that 112,621 persons from Colombo, 95,095 persons from Gampaha, 51,858 persons from Kalutara, 32,910 persons from Galle, and 25,890 persons from Kurunegala have tested positive for COVID-19 to date.
The Epidemiology Unit adds that 80,324 patients from Colombo, 76,561 patients from Gampaha, and 44,800 patients from Kalutara were detected during the third wave of the pandemic.
At present, 19,302 persons are under medical or home-based care and 1,871 persons suspected of having COVID-19 are under observation.
The Epidemiology Unit states that 315 persons were released from care yesterday, raising the country’s COVID-19 recoveries to 503,703.
