The Public Health Inspectors Union yesterday warned of sub clusters emerging in some other provinces as there were COVID-19 patients who were detected there, from those who had travelled out of the Western Province during the festive season.
PHI Union Secretary Mahesh Balasuriya told the Daily Mirror that they had received reports of patients being detected from the Central Province, Eastern Province and North Western Province, and these were patients who had travelled during the holiday season from the Colombo district. some who had travelled were the first contacts who had tested positive.
"This is why we requested the authorities to impose travel restrictions between the districts to prevent the virus from going out of the Western Province.now there is a threat of a rise in the number of positive patients from those districts in the coming weeks or even sub clusters emerging, "balasuriya said.he urged authorities to increase PCR tests in those districts immediately to detect more patients rather than using the Rapid Antigen Tests.he also urged the authorities to conduct more and more PCR tests in the coming weeks rather than concentrate on a fixed number.