Sri Lanka is inching towards zero number of COVID patients as the number of recoveries are rising fast amidst few positive cases on daily basis.

A total of 1,917 patients have recovered out of total of 2076 positive cases reported so far as only 148 patients are currently receiving medical care.

Only two positive cases were reported on Sunday while over 40 people recovered.

The country has not seen any community case for over two months and the few positive cases over past days are from people returning from abroad and who are undergoing quarantine.

A navy camp had seen maximum number of cases since the COVID outbreak but a total of 885 navy personnel have recovered with only few receiving treatment.

Meanwhile, schools resumed their academic activities partially today for the first time after they were closed for COVID.

The government has approved state schools to reopen in stages under the health guidelines.

As part of it, students of Grade 5, 11 and 13 returned to school today.

Universities have been allowed to reopen for second and third-year students from today while examinations for fourth-year university students have already commenced on June 22.

UAE has reported 683 new cases of the Covid-19 and 440 new recoveries. The total number of cases in the UAE now stands at 51,540. The active cases are 10,920.

UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention said, it has conducted more than 47,000 additional COVID-19 tests.

Two additional deaths were also reported, bringing the total death toll to 323.

In Saudi Arabia 3,580 new Covid-19 cases were reported, raising the total to 209,509.

In Bangladesh the death toll due to Coronavirus crossed 2000 on Sunday as 55 deaths were reported in 24 hours since Saturday.

Briefing media the Additional Director General (ADG) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr. Nasima Sultana said that 2738 new Coronavirus cases and 1904 recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours. The total number of recovered patients has gone up to 72625.

The recovery rate in Bangladesh now stands at 44.72%.

In view of the mounting deaths and infections, the local authorities continued with the strategy of putting highly affected areas called red zones under complete lockdown.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) put the Wari locality of Dhaka under complete lockdown for three weeks starting Saturday. The Chittagong University also imposed complete lockdown for two weeks within the University area from Saturday.

In the meanwhile, Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Senior Awami League leader Obaudur Quader has called upon the people to avoid crowding at any cost during the forthcoming Eid-Ul-Azha festival.