487 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday (28)

Among them, are 223 persons from Colombo region, 78 persons from Gampaha area and 15 from Kandy region, stated the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).

By 6.00 Sunday morning (29), the total number of COVID-19 positive cases reported from Minuwangoda garment factory employees and Peliyagoda Fish Market cluster stands at 19,447.

Meanwhile, 13,223 fully-recovered COVID-19 patients from both Minuwangoda (3,059) and fish market (16,388) clusters have been discharged from hospitals.

As of Saturday (28), a total of 22,988 persons have been confirmed COVID-19 positive from all over the country, including the dead.

16,655 fully-recovered COVID-19 patients have been so far discharged from hospitals and the rest 6,224 are still under treatment in hospitals and care centres.

To-date, 109 COVID-19 positive deaths have been reported. 

By this morning (29), the flight UL104 from Maldives with 69 passengers and the flight QR668 from Qatar with 45 passengers , the flight UL607 from Australia with 4 passengers ,6E 9034 from India with 4 passengers and UL 226 from Dubai with 292 passengers have arrived in Colombo.

All those passengers were referred to Quarantine Centres (QCs), managed by tri-services upon their arrival after formalities at the airport.

As of this morning (29), 5,279 persons in 53 tri service-managed QCs are still in quarantine.

Within yesterday (28), 11, 936 PCR tests were carried out.