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Sri Lanka shuffles senior health official after Rajapaksa reveals wrong COVID-19 death figures

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Published 21 Jun, 2021

By Staff Reporter

A senior health official in Sri Lanka has been transferred after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa expressed his unhappiness over not being able to ease the COVID-19 restrictions in the country on June 14 due to presentation of wrong data that showed a spike in the number of deaths from the virus.



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