COLOMBO Sri Lanka has reached yet another grim coronavirus milestone as the total number of infections reported from the country exceeded the 8,000th mark.
With the recent detection of 280 COVID-19 cases, the total number of cases recorded in Sri Lanka is at 8,152.
Among them, 4,203 are active cases and are receiving medical care at selected hospitals across the island.
Meanwhile, the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda clusters have grown to 4,678 cases.
The tally of COVID-19 recoveries reported reached 3,933 cases today (26) as 130 more patients were discharged from their respective hospitals upon complete recovery.
Sri Lanka witnessed its 16th death from the novel coronavirus, last night (25).
The Ministry of Health confirms that another 280 new cases of novel coronavirus have been reported today from the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda clusters.
Fifteen (15) of them are from quarantine centers while the remaining 265 are contacts of positive patients from the two clusters.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases reported from Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda clusters to 4,678.
The death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka is 16.