Sri Lanka’s early success in the containment of COVID-19 through its rapid response: Clinical & epidemiological evidence from the initial case series

• Carukshi Arambepola ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carukshi@commed.cmb.ac.lk

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-6022

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• Surangi Jayakody,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• Sumudu Avanthi Hewage,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services, Colombo, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8079-4338

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• Ananda Wijewickrema,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Angoda, Sri Lanka

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• Nalika Gunawardena,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Sapumal Dhanapala,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Shamini Prathapan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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