980 more COVID patients discharged upon recovery

980 more COVID patients discharged upon recovery

July 20, 2021   04:07 pm

As many as 980 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from hospitals and treatment centres as they have recovered from the virus infection, says the Ministry of Health.

This brings the total number of recoveries in the country to 262,828.

Sri Lanka has so far confirmed 286,419 cases of COVID-19 in total and more than 19,000 virus-infected patients are currently under medical care.

Meanwhile, the death toll now stands at 3,827.

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