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Sri Lanka’s Shiran Fernando tests negative for Covid-19
DHAKA, May 26, 2021 (BSS) – Sri Lanka’s pacer Shiran Fernando who
was only player of the side to have tested coronavirus positive in
return test during the ongoing Bangladesh tour finally was tested
negative today.
Ahead of the first match on Sunday, Fernando along with bowling
coach Chaminda Vaas and allrounder Isuru Udana were tested positive.
Vaas and Udana though became negative, Fernando remained positive and
had to isolate him.
Udana even played the first game on Sunday, which came under
scrutiny after the positive cases.
Three days after that test, Fernando however came back negative,
much to the relief of the Lankan side.
“He (Shiran Fernando) returned negative today after undergoing a
Corona test yesterday,” BCB physician Monjurul Hossain Chowdhury said
here today. “He is now with the Sri Lanka team.”
His positive tests could be ‘false positive’, suggested BCB
president Nazmul Hassan Papon earlier. Shiran Fernando recovered from
the virus not so long ago.
“May be since he recovered from coronavirus a few days back, the
PCR test detected dead RNA. There are times it [dead virus RNA] can
stay in the body for 28 days. This is why we have once again sent for
new tests. The same thing happened with Khaled Mahmud Sujon, who was
negative twice before being positive. He said he had no symptoms and
then he was sent again for test, which came back negative. It is
indeed rare to be positive despite being in the bio-bubble,” Papon
said.
Sri Lanka had already lost the series after a 33-run and 103-run
defeat by DLS in the first two matches. The third and final match will
be held on Friday.
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