Colombo (ECONOMYNEXT): A pregnant coronavirus patient had given birth in Sri Lanka, the head of Sri Lanka’s health service Anil Jasinghe said

“We found a coronavirus patient from the area in Beruwala which had been locked down,” Jasinghe told Sri Lanka’s privately-run Derana TV.

“She gave birth without complications.”

She had been treated at Kaluthara hospital.

Jasinghe said a 40-year-old patient had passed away with pneumonia making him the 05 death, he had no complications.

“This shows that the virus can attack the lungs of persons who had no history of diabetes, pressure,” Jasinghe said.

“In general the virus attacks older persons and those will complications but it also.”

The dead person was a returnee from Italy who was in Welikanda hospital, he said. The patient had been in the intensive care unit from March 26.

Sri Lanka is widening testing, which is helping authorities identify infected contacts (F1) quickly.

 Sri Lanka relaxed some rules for curfew bound regions in the country as eight more confirmed cases were found Friday bringing the total to 159.

The country now has 131 active cases with four deaths and 24 discharged from hospitals after a complete recovery.

On Friday telecommunications technicians and Veterinary Surgeons were added to the list of professionals who could go to work during curfew hours.

The country’s top health official said health workers were testing some 200 people who had come into contact with two patients who were confirmed on Thursday.

Director-General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe said that 108 COVID 19 cases are warded in the National Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) while 12 are at Welikanda and 12 others are at Mulleriyawa.
 
Parts of central Colombo are in lockdown after a 73-year old man described as a Travel Agent succumbed to severe pneumonia before he was diagnosed with COVID 19.

Army Commander Lt Gen Shavendra Silva said a total of 302 people who lived in the vicinity of the latest fatality were taken to quarantine centres. (Colombo, April 3, 2020)

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