Fifty six persons out of 450 inmates and staff members at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre – East in Kandakadu, have tested positive for COVID-19, Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe said today.
He said the reports of the PCR tests performed on rest of them were yet to be received.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jasinghe said a female counsellor attached to the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre also tested positive for the virus from Marawila today.
She had been subjected to a PCR test at the Marawila Hospital.
(Daily Mirror)