After investigating the prevalence of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in different provinces in Sri Lanka, USJ researchers found out the Delta variant was responsible for 95.8% of Covid-19 infections in Sri Lanka. It is important to find out the prevalence of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in different provinces in Sri Lanka, to take relevant policy decisions regarding...Read More
The State Literary Festival 2020 has awarded the Prize for the Best Translation (Novel) from Sinhala to English to Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake, for her work The Sowing Festival, the translation of Somaratne Balasuriya’s novel Wap Magula. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri...Read More
Extracting every possible detail of the spread and mitigation of COVID-19 is a timely requirement. Research team lead by Dr. Naleen Ganegoda of the Department of Mathematics proposed a mechanism to investigate frequency of enhancing PCR testing for Sri Lanka, as PCR testing is constrained by healthcare and socio-economic factors. “We investigated a mathematical model...Read More