When Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa, Registrar in Medical Administration, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at Colombo University predicted a possible outbreak of a novel coronavirus back in 2013, neither the authorities nor the public gave much attention. The article was first published in a Sinhala newspaper during the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in certain other parts of the world. In the article he warns that Sri Lanka too might be affected by this new type of virus and at the time the article was written he was serving as a Medical Officer at Karapitiya Teaching Hospital. “All what I said was based on scientific evidence. But there wasn’t much of a response to my prediction since Sri Lanka didn’t face such a situation during that time,” he said while speaking to Daily Mirror. However, seven years later, his prediction has come true.
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“In 2013 the MERS virus was spreading in some parts of the world. MERS is one type of coronavirus and there were studies which revealed that there would be a similar type of coronavirus outbreak in the future. They expected such an outbreak in 2013 as well, but MERS didn’t crossover to the European continent as it was only confined to the Middle Eastern countries. Since there were Sri Lankans working in other countries I warned of this outbreak. There are people travelling to Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and other regions. Since it was a novel coronavirus I mentioned it as it is. Later only they named it COVID-19 because it happened last year. This type of virus spreads faster than SARS or MERS. In scientific terms it’s called SARS CoV 2,” he said.
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