Sunday, 16 May 2021 - 10:12
Ravi Kumudesh, the President of the Association of Government Medical Laboratory Technologists stated that the COVID test capacity of the main laboratories in the country has been exceeded for the past two weeks.
He stated that in this situation, the results of the daily COVID tests are delayed for about five days.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated yesterday (15) that the situation in India as well as in Sri Lanka, Nepal and other countries had turned deadlier .
At the same time, the health sector pointed out that it is important to identify those who are infected and their associates to control the spread of the virus.
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COLOMBO (News1st): A new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected in a patient identified in Sri Lanka, the Department of Immunology and Molecular Sciences at the University of Sri Jayawardenapura said.
“We tested the samples that came to us in the past month and detected a mutation quite similar to the variant found in the UK,” Professor Chandima Jeewandara, the director of operations at the department noted.
Meanwhile, the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) also raised questions on the possibility of people entering the country while being infected by the new variant.
“Even though this new strain has less complications, a large number of people could be infected by the virus,” GMOA spokesman Dr Samantha Ananda noted.
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