A study conducted by the scientists at the Sri Jayewardenepura University have found that the currently circulating COVID-19 coronavirus strain is different to the strains that circulated previously and highly transmissible.

Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a massive outbreak, which originated in Minuwangoda, Gampaha district in early October and is now spreading all over the country.

The scientists at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine and Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology Unit of University of Sri Jayewardenepura have carried out the whole genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to determine whether the current outbreak is due to spread of different strains.

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