Colombo, Mar 28, 2020, SPA -- Sri Lanka reported its first death of the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday as the government turned to indefinite lockdown measures in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. The 60-year-old patient who succumbed to the pneumonia-like disease caused by the virus had previously undergone a kidney transplant and was diabetic. Sri Lanka has so far kept its number of confirmed coronavirus infections low, at 110 cases since the potentially deadly new virus case was first dectected in the country on January 27. --SPA 22:18 LOCAL TIME 19:18 GMT 0019 www.spa.gov.sa/w1296711