EP Governor tested COVID-19 positive

Eastern Province Governor Anuradha Yahampath yesterday said that she was tested positive with COVID-19 virus.  

She told the Daily Mirror that she had undergone a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) two days before, after a meeting at the office of the Trincomalee Government Agent (GA) and came to know through the results by Tuesday (11).  
She is receiving treatment at her residence covered by quarantine regulations.  Close associates of her and the staffers have been sent for quarantine, she said.  

“We have engaged in various activities to control spreading of the virus in the EP. Unfortunately, I have got infected with the virus,” she said.  

It was also said that the virus spread is rampant in the Eastern Province.