Nine new cases of COVID-19 identified increasing the number cases to 2,880

Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been identified hiking the number of virus-positive cases in the country to 2,880.
The new cases have been identified as recent arrivals from Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.

Accordingly, a total of 9 cases have been detected in the country within the day.

As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 247 active cases are currently under medical care at hospitals.

In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka has moved up to 2,622 cases with 29 patients being discharged after recovery, today.