Patient with South African variant of COVID-19 identified in Sri Lanka

12 March 2021 04:12 pm

A South African variant of COVID-19 known as B.1.351 has been detected from a patient in a quarantine center in Sri Lanka for the first time, Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Sri Jayewardenepura University, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara said.

He said the patient is a returnee from Tanzanian.