Batticaloa has first coronavirus patient as island-wide numbers climb

A patient at Batticaloa Teaching Hospital has tested positive for coronavirus, the first case in the NORth-East, as the island-wide total climbed to 43 earlier today.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health said that almost 200 other people are currently under observation at hospitals and treatment centres.

Meanwhile, Shavendra Silva, the head of the Sri Lankan army who is subject to US travel sanctions, acknowledged that 1,719 people had been detained in quarantine centres run by the military to date. 

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