Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics

Abstract

PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others become carriers of the virus after being infected by it. South Korea tests 8,000 per million people. However, our country only tests 100 per million people. - Rajitha Senaratne, Mawbima, 12 April 2020