COVID-19 PCR TESTING: J’pura Uni lab pulls out

July 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM

The Sunday Morning : Dissapointed about the Government dismissing their positive Covid-19 test results as false positives, the University of Sri Jayewardenepura Dengue Research Centre has decided to discontinue PCR testing on behalf of the Government, while the Government noted that the reason it ended the collaboration was that the State is now in possession of sufficient facilities to conduct all PCR tests.

The University of Jayewardenepura’s reasons for the discontinuation of testing were revealed to The Sunday Morning by an University official on Friday (10).

A key reason for its withdrawal was allegedly due to the fact that the authorities had intentionally overlooked positive Covid-19 test results from tests carried out by the University’s Dengue Research Centre, which began conducting real-time PCR testing for the Health Ministry during the Covid-19 curfew.

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