Covid variant spreading in China present in SL for many months: Prof. Malavige

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The Covid-19 variants that are currently causing a massive outbreak in China have been present in Sri Lanka and the rest of the world for many months, a health expert said.  

Head of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura Prof. Neelika Malavige said in a twitter post that this was confirmed based on the sequencing data released by China.