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Covid deaths exceed 6,000 mark

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Sri Lanka’s total COVID-19 deaths exceeded 6,000 with the announcement of 161 more fatalities that occurred yesterday.  

A total of 161 more COVID-19 related deaths that occurred yesterday (14) were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today pushing the death toll to 6,096.

According to the Government Information Department,78 females and 83 males are among the deceased.