Over 500 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka within 5 days.
Accordingly, more than 100 deaths were reported for 3rd consecutive day.
Department of Government Information said that 124 COVID-19 deaths were reported on 10 August bringing the total death count to 5464.
Out of that 95 deaths are reported from senior citizen category which is over 60 years while one person below 30 years had been died by the virus.