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1. Sri Lanka reports its first community case of the highly transmissible Delta variant in five patients.
   2021-06-19 01:06:04 (First version)
2. Sri Lanka reports its first community case of the highly transmissible Lineage B.1.617 Delta variant in five patients.
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