A fully-equipped and automated Infectious Disease Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory facility with a capacity for conduct of about 300 COVID-19 (PCR) tests for Sri Lanka Army personnel and their families became operational from Sep (8) onwards at the Colombo Army Hospital, providing a boost to the governmental national efforts for conduct of PCR tests and other ones for infectious diseases. Currently, 20 designated laboratories across the country under the close supervision of consultant virologists and microbiologists carry out those diagnostic PCR investigations against COVID-19.