2,800 police officers ‘quarantined at their quarters and in quarantine centers’

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police as many as 1,123 officers have tested positive for COVID-19 and 2,800 others have been quarantined amid a surge in cases in the capital and its suburbs.

Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said on Thursday that the 2,800 have been quarantined at their quarters and in quarantine centers.

Health authorities have linked the police infections to a cluster of cases centered at the country’s main fish market near Colombo.

Sri Lanka has seen an upsurge in the disease since last month, when two clusters emerged — one at a garment factory and the other at the fish market.

The total number of confirmed cases of the virus reported in the country thus far has increased to 21,811.

The death toll in the country from coronavirus stands at 99.