By Maheesha Mudugamuwa
Four days after the identification of the first Covid-19-positive female from society after three months of control, the health and law enforcement authorities were still unable to detect the origin of the Minuwangoda cluster, The Morning learnt.
Health Ministry Epidemiology Unit Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera yesterday (7) confirmed that the apparel worker who tested positive for Covid-19 on 4 October was not the origin of the Minuwangoda Brandix cluster.
Addressing the media, Dr. Samaraweera said the authorities believe that she could have contracted the virus from someone else and the virus might have entered the apparel factory at least two weeks before the apparel worker tested positive.
According to the PCR tests conducted so far, some apparel workers who tested positive were said to have shown symptoms of the virus, while others were asymptomatic.
So far, Covid-19 cases have been reported from the Anuradhapura, Badulla, Galle, Kurunegala, Monaragala, Puttalam, Kegalle, Kalutara, Kandy, Matara, Polonnaruwa, and Ratnapura Districts, and all these cases have been directed to immediate treatment and quarantine, according to the Health Ministry.Yet to identify Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster origins: Authorities
08 Oct 2020
Yet to identify Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster origins: Authorities
08 Oct 2020
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa
Four days after the identification of the first Covid-19-positive female from society after three months of control, the health and law enforcement authorities were still unable to detect the origin of the Minuwangoda cluster, The Morning learnt.
Health Ministry Epidemiology Unit Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera yesterday (7) confirmed that the apparel worker who tested positive for Covid-19 on 4 October was not the origin of the Minuwangoda Brandix cluster.
Addressing the media, Dr. Samaraweera said the authorities believe that she could have contracted the virus from someone else and the virus might have entered the apparel factory at least two weeks before the apparel worker tested positive.
According to the PCR tests conducted so far, some apparel workers who tested positive were said to have shown symptoms of the virus, while others were asymptomatic.
So far, Covid-19 cases have been reported from the Anuradhapura, Badulla, Galle, Kurunegala, Monaragala, Puttalam, Kegalle, Kalutara, Kandy, Matara, Polonnaruwa, and Ratnapura Districts, and all these cases have been directed to immediate treatment and quarantine, according to the Health Ministry.Kapruka
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