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Story doing rounds about Speaker being infected false – Officials
The Speaker’s Office yesterday announced that a story doing the rounds that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena was infected with the coronavirus was false.
One of the policemen assigned for the close protection security contingent of the Speaker was found afflicted with COVID-19.
Thereafter PCR tests had been conducted on all close associates of the policeman in question.
All those policemen had been asked to undergo self-quarantine for 14 days and a separate team deployed for the security of the Speaker, the announcement issued by the Speaker’s Office said.