Another 82 Corona deaths had been reported yesterday (04) in the country increasing the total number of Corona deaths reported so far to 4727 according to Director General Of Health Services ,This was the highest number of Corona deaths reported in a single day from the country so far it has been announced ,
Accordingly 41 males and 41 females had died due to Corona infection and out of the deceased 60 were over 60 years old it has been revealed ,Another 22 were of the age group 30-59 .
Out of the little more than 540 ,000 persons who are required to be received the second dose of the Oxford-Astrasenenca " Anti Corona vaccine 174 ,985 persons had been received it up to yesterday (02) according to Epidemiology Unit ,
Altogether 422,472 persons had been received the first and second doses of Corona vaccines during yesterday .Up to yesterday 73.6 percent of the Sri Lankan adult population had been received at least a single dose of a Corona vaccine and 17,4 percent of the Adult population had received the both doses of Corona vaccine the Epidemiology Unit has stated
Minister Of Agriculture Mahindanada Aluthgamage had been tested positive for Corona virus today (03) through a "PCR " test conducted for him it has been reported ,Accordingly Minister and his close contacts including his family members and Ministry officials are being currently under house quarantine it has been revealed ,
Steps had been taken to disinfect the Ministers office at the Ministry Of Agriculture it has been reported .
Meanwhile Minister Of Energy Udaya Gammanpila is also being under house quarantine from today as few of his Ministry officials were tested positive for Corona virus it has been stated ,The Ministry Of Energy had been closed until this Friday (06) due to the situation ,
A Total of 74 Corona deaths had been reported today (03) increasing the total number of Corona deaths reported in the country to 4645 according to Director General Of Health Services ,This is the highest number of corona deaths reported in Sri Lanka on a single day according to health Ministry ,
Out of the deceased 48 were males and 26 were females it has been revealed ,56 of the deceased were over 60 years old and 17 were of the ages 30-59 according to reports .One of the deceased was less than 20 years old .
