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title: "Covid variant spreading in China present in SL for many months: Prof. Malavige"
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date: 2023-01-05
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# Covid variant spreading in China present in SL for many months: Prof. Malavige

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 from China.

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