COLOMBO : Sri Lanka has registered 216 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Sunday (August 29).
This marks the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day.
The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,991.
According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 115 males and 101 females.
Five of the victims are aged below 30 years while 41 of them are aged between 30-59 years and 170 others are aged 60 and above
Meanwhile, it was also reported that another 974 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,562.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 436,081.
As many as 371,992 recoveries and 8,991 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 55,098 active cases are currently under medical care.
