(UTV | COLOMBO) – The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday (15) announced that the risk of the COVID-19 virus spreading in the Colombo District has risen again with the detection of the new variant.
GMOA’s Dr. Haritha Aluthge said that the number of patients tested positive for COVID-19 reported from the Colombo District had been reduced to 40 per cent during past 2-weeks and with the detection of the highly contagious new variant of the COVID found in the United Kingdom (UK), the number of daily positive cases in the Colombo District has again risen to 60 per cent.
He further said that the number of new cases reported outside the Colombo Municipal Council area has increased. The country is now recording over 800 cases on a daily basis with 238 of new cases reported on Sunday from Colombo with 108 of them from the Colombo suburbs.
The risk of the virus spread in Maharagama has increased and 18 new cases were reported on Sunday.
