Initial response to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak in Sri Lanka; views of public health specialists through an International Health Regulations lens

• Amandhi Caldera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amandhi Caldera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-8469

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• Rajitha Wickremasinghe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amandhi Caldera, Rajitha Wickremasinghe

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

  * E-mail: rajwicks@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6174-6784

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• Gretchen Newby,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malaria Elimination Initiative, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Ruwanthi Perera,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

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• Kamini Mendis,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Deepika Fernando

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2535-9031

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