Four passengers test COVID-19 positive in Kandy-bound buses

24 December 2020 12:00 am

By Pushpakumara Mallawaarachchi 

Four passengers were found COVID-19 positive when Rapid Antigen tests were performed on them while travelling in passenger buses at Danovita on the Colombo-Kandy Road on Tuesday, Mirigama Public Health Inspector (PHI) Nishantha Somaratne said yesterday. 

He said 250 passengers were tested on Tuesday, and four of them were found COVID-19 positive. They are residents of Dodangaslanda, Giriulla, Beruwala and Nelundeniya. 


The buses in which the infected had travelled were disinfected and the infected were taken to the hospital.