The journey restrictions which is at the moment in drive can be in prolonged till June 21, in response to a choice taken by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa,” Army Commander Shavendra Silva, who heads the COVID-19 prevention task force, told reporters here on Friday. Essential services, apparel factories, construction sites, village markets, agricultural and organic fertiliser production will function during the restrictions,” Silva stated.
Sri Lanka has witnessed a rise of constructive circumstances and deaths since April, partly brought on by celebrations and procuring throughout final month’s conventional new 12 months competition. The nation has recorded over 100,000 new infections since April 15 in its third wave. The loss of life toll from the coronavirus has now reached 2,011, well being officers stated on Friday.
The 101 deaths reported on Thursday was the very best variety of deaths confirmed in a day because the onset of the pandemic within the nation in March 2020. The extension of the journey restrictions got here as officers within the well being sector had expressed dissatisfaction on the impression of the journey restrictions on curbing the wave. They referred to as for a lot stronger motion to restrict individuals’s actions because the extremely contagious Alpha and Delta variants of the coronavirus have been detected within the nation.
An eight-day outdated child from Pussellawa city in Kandy District, who died on Wednesday, was the nation’s youngest Covid sufferer, Health officers stated. Most of the sufferers who died as a consequence of COVID-19 have been between 65 -75 years of age. The nation has registered over 2,17,000 constructive circumstances to date.
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