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Monday, April 27, 2020

Government To Increase The Number Of "PCR :Tests Carrying Out Daily

Government is planning to increase the

amount of daily "PCR "tests performs to identify Corona virus positives with the assistance of Medical and Science faculties of five state universities .

Accordingly "PCR " tests will be carried out daily with the assistance of Medical and science faculties of University of Colombo ,Sri Jayawardhanapura ,Pedadeniya ,Kelaniya and Batticaloa universities .

With this joint programme it is expected to cariied out an additional 1000 "PCR " Tests except 1000 tests currently being carried out daily .

Prime Minister had met with authorities of these Universities yesterday (27)to discuss on this .

Curfew Imposed In 22 Districts To Be Lifted This Morning (28)

Island wide curfew that is being

imposed at present in 22 Districts is scheduled to be lifted at 5 a.m today (28)according to the Deputy Inspector General Of Police Ajith Rohana .

The Curfew imposed in four districts namely Colombo ,Gampaha ,Kalutara and Puttalam Districts will be continued until Next Momday morning he has stressed .

Earlier the Curfew Imposed in other 22 Districts since 8 p.m on last friday (24)schefuled to be lifted last Morning (27).However as the Government has planned to recall all the Military personal attached to Tri foces who are on leave back to their working stations ,Government has announced that the curfew will be implemented until this morning .

The curfew in these Districts will be re imposed at 8 p.m tonight until 5 a.m tomorrow .

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Updated-65 Corona Positives Had Been Reported Today (27)-Majority Of Them Are Navy Personal

According to the Epidemeology Unit 65

Corona Virus positives had been reported from the country within today (27)upto midnight tonight (27) .With these new positives the total number of Corona positives reported in the country had risen to 588 .

Majority of these Corona positives are Navy personal attached to Naval base in Welisara .Already 160 Navy personal had been tested positive for Corona virus and 112 of them tested positive whilst under quarantine in the Camp and 68 had been tested positive after returning home on leave it has been revealed .

At the moment 465 Corona positives are being treated at 06 Government hospitals including National Infectious Diseases Hospital ,Angoda .

Meanwhile 06 Corona Virus positives had been discharged from Government hospitals today (27)after fully recovered increasing the total number of Corona positives discharged from hoospitals to 126.