Sri Lanka on this Saturday, has detected its first case of the Indian variant of coronavirus, also known as B.1.617.
As per the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, the infected person had returned from India and was found at a quarantine center for returnees in Colombo.
“A person infected with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading in India, was reported from a quarantine center in Sri Lanka in a genetic sequencing test conducted on samples of Covid-19 cases,” said Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
He also stated that samples containing both the Indian and South African variants were detected in the tests out of the samples taken from those who returned from overseas. This is the second time that a person with the South African variant was detected in Sri Lanka.
As per the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, the infected person had returned from India and was found at a quarantine center for returnees in Colombo.
“A person infected with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading in India, was reported from a quarantine center in Sri Lanka in a genetic sequencing test conducted on samples of Covid-19 cases,” said Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
He also stated that samples containing both the Indian and South African variants were detected in the tests out of the samples taken from those who returned from overseas. This is the second time that a person with the South African variant was detected in Sri Lanka.
