14 May 2021 09:10 pm
A 28-year-old pregnant mother had succumbed to COVID-19 infection after a Cesarean delivery at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.
Doctors could only manage to save the life of the infant, hospital sources said.
The deceased mother is a resident of Boralugoda in Kobeigane.
This records the third COVID death of pregnant mothers in Sri Lanka. (Pushpakumara Jayaratne)