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Minuwangoda cluster grows as 246 more factory workers test positive
Oct 06, 202001:07 PM
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Minuwangoda cluster grows as 246 more factory workers test positive
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Another 246 workers of the Minuwangoda apparel factory have tested positive for COVID-19.

 

The new development has brought the total number of positive cases detected from the Minuwangoda cluster to 567.

 

Accordingly, the positive cases of novel coronavirus confirmed in Sri Lanka have soared to 3,979.

 

The Epidemiology Unit says 700 active cases are currently receiving treatment at several hospitals across the island.

 

The recoveries confirmed in the country meanwhile reached 3,266 this morning (06) as 07 more patients were discharged upon returning to health.

 

Earlier today, 220 more factory workers also tested positive for the virus. The cluster also confirmed 101 other infections on Monday (05).

 

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases tally began to surge by several hundreds of infections after a 39-year-old woman, employed at a leading apparel factory in Minuwangoda, tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday (04).

 

She was then transferred from the Gampaha Hospital to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda. It was later confirmed that her 16-year-old daughter too had contracted the virus.

 

 

 

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