Sri Lanka sets a new record of over 2,500 new COVID-19 cases in a single day

Sri Lanka Sunday set a new record with the number of daily Covid-19 infections exceeding 2,500 for the first time since the epidemic began.

According to Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 2,672 new COVID-19 cases were reported so far on Sunday.

According to the Epidemiology Unit report at 8:25 pm Saturday, a total of 125,906 COVID-19 cases have been reported and 20,657 infected patients are being treated at hospitals, while 104,463 patients have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals..

According to the Epidemiology Unit report, so far total of 931,396 people have received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and out of them 197,340 have received the second dose.