No black fungus cases detected in SL: Health Ministry


Colombo, May 24 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Health Ministry on Monday denied claims that the "black fungus" infection has been detected in the country after rumours spread that a person was infected in the Eastern Province.

State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and Covid Disease Control Sudarshani Fernandopulle, was quoted by local media as saying that there had been no reports of any "black fungus" patients while health officials said they were monitoring the situation after cases had been reported in neighbouring India, reports Xinhua news agency.

Fernandopulle said that following claims that a young Covid-19 patient had developed the fungal infection in Ampara, the Health Ministry had conducted a probe and found that the said the person was suffering from tuberculosis and hence had developed a fungal infection which was not black fungus.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: No black fungus cases detected in SL: Health Ministry



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.