In Sri Lanka, a total of 56 people were tested positive at a rehabilitation center registering the largest number of COVID cases in over a month.<br />'' <br />''These people are from Kandakadu treatment and rehabilitation centre, where a prisoner was kept for treatment and who had tested positive on Sunday.<br />'' <br />''Over 450 inmates and staff at the center were quarantined and subjected to PCR tests.<br />'' <br />''The prisoner was shifted to prison before testing positive and 174 prison inmates in the ward were also quarantined and tested.<br />'' <br />''However, none of them tested positive. A female counselor, employed at the center, have been detected positive at her home.<br />'' <br />''Health workers have initiated necessary steps for testing and quarantining the contacts of positive cases.<br />'' <br />''With today's cases, the number of positive cases in Sri Lankan rose to 2151.<br />'' <br />''Among them, total of 1979 have already recovered while 11 persons have died of the pandemic.<br />'' <br />''The country has only 161 active cases and is fast returning to normalcy.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Parliamentary elections are scheduled for 5th of next month and the authorizes were earlier planning to allow tourists from next month, which has been delayed now.</span>