Colombo (News 1st); Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) and Commander of the Sri Lanka Army has requested the general public to submit themselves to a PCR test at a government hospital if they met with any employee from the Minuwangoda Brandix factory after the 23rd of September.

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