Sri Lanka’s records all time high of 3,591 COVID-19 cases in a day

Sri Lanka’s records all time high of 3,591 COVID-19 cases in a day

May 19, 2021   09:34 pm

Sri Lanka marked its highest count of coronavirus cases reported within a day as another 540 positive cases, the Department of Government Information confirmed.

Thereby, the current daily count sits at 3,591.

Sri Lanka has reported a total of 151,311 coronavirus cases so far and 27,929 of them are currently receiving medical care at selected hospitals and intermediate treatment centers across the island.

Meanwhile, a total of 122,367 have recovered from the virus, as per the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health.

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