Over 1,000 people in Sri Lanka’s garment factories have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 100 million masks have been produced and exported to the United States

On the 7th local time, the Sri Lankan government stated that a cluster of new coronavirus pneumonia has occurred in a garment factory on the outskirts of the capital Colombo. More than a thousand employees have been diagnosed, making it the largest outbreak in the country so far. of collective infection. As of August this year, the factory has produced 200 million masks for American customers. The first confirmed patient appeared in the factory on the 4th, and the number of confirmed cases continued to increase thereafter. As of the 7th, 1,026 of the 1,700 employees at the factory have been diagnosed and hospitalized. </p