COLOMBO – Sri Lanka on Sunday (25) recorded its 16th COVID-19 related death, a 70-year-old man who had been receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the National Hospital in Colombo. This is the 3rd COVID related death reported in Sri Lanka this week.
The Department of Government Information, in a statement confirming the death on Sunday, said the deceased, a resident from Colombo 2, had been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital on October 23 with complications caused by sepsis. He had been later transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and had passed away early Sunday morning.
The statement quoting the Director General Health Services, said the patient had died due to complications arising from the infection, though he had been confirmed as COVID-19 positive earlier in the day.
The death is the third to be recorded after a new and more virulent strain of the virus emerged in a new cluster in Minuwangoda with the apparel factory in the area as the epicentre earlier this month. Since then the cluster has seen sub-clusters in several parts of the country, with the largest case load reported from the Peliyagoda fish market. As of Sunday night, the Minuwangoda cluster had recorded 4,398 cases.
-ENCL