Cases of ‘black fungus’ infections have been reported from the Colombo National Hospital, and Kurunegala and Ratnapura areas and some of them are COVID-19 infected persons, Health Services Deputy Director General Dr. Hemantha Herath has said. He further mentioned that this cannot develop into a pandemic, as it is not transmitted from person to person, but rather from the environment to a person. Listen to his statement here (Sinhala): https://www.newswire.lk/2021/09/15/black-fungus-covid-patients-identified-from-three-areas/.