COLOMBO : Sri Lanka registered 198 more COVID-19 related fatalities on Tuesday August 24, According to onthe Director-General of Health Services on August 25.
This marks the tenth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100.
The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,948.
According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 119 males and 79 females.
One among the victims is aged below 30 years while 51 of them are aged between 30-59 years and 146 others are aged 60 and above.
It was also reported that another 1,093 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,483.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 407,768.
As many as 348,930 recoveries and 7,948 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 50,890 active cases are currently under medical care.
