Has mysterious death of Chinese who lived in Karuwelagaswewa had any connection with Covid 19?

Has mysterious death of Chinese who lived in Karuwelagaswewa had any connection with Covid 19?

The mysterious dead body of a Chinese national was found from a farmyard in Kudamedawachchiya area in Karuwalagaswewa day before yesterday (2) and a suspicion has emerged as to whether there is a connection with the death and corona virus which is spreading around these days. 

Though he is a Chinese national, he has been residing in Sri Lanka for a long period of time and is someone who has been maintaining a farm in an area covering 100 acres in the midst of a jungle
where elephants used to move about. It is learned that he was in possession of Sri Lankan citizenship. This person named Lee Jayan is supposed to be 65 years. Though he carried on this farm by employing Sri Lankans and it is learned that he is someone who disliked having connections with people here, it was revealed  from investigations. It is also said that he had not liked anybody coming to where this Chinese national lived. He says that he is someone who attends to his work on his own and it was said that preparation of food and domestic work is attended to by himself. 

A Sri Lankan who functioned as the manager of the said farm has a week before become sick and as a result was hospitalised and the owner, the Chinese national  has been carrying out the work of the manager. However since he was not be seen for a few days, the watcher in the farm has been cautious about it. The watcher of the farm has then gone close to the house where the Chinese national lived and had peeped through a window and after noticing he was mysteriously dead, he had complained to police. The watcher has told police that it was seen that the Chinese person has dropped on to a chair. 

Puttalam additional magistrate Mr. Mohammed Rafi ordered Karuwalagaswewa police to have a post mortem conducted by Puttalam judicial officer and to forward a report to Puttalam court. According to the said complaint, police inquiries commenced and subsequently Karuwalagaswewa police notified Puttalam court about the outcome. This order was released by the additional magistrate who surveyed this location under consideration. 

Police said that two vials were to be found at the place where the Chinese national died and police say that so far it has not been revealed whether any medicine was in it. This Chinese person has arrived in this country in 1992 and the suspicion has cropped up whether this is a case of a death from corona virus. However it has still not possible to collect such evidence. Whatever it is, the deceased has been to China during the period of about August - September, 2019 when it could be suspected as the initial corona germ had circulated and has returned. 

He has secured citizenship as a Sri Lankan in the year 2015 and has for sometime served in the Chinese army, it has been revealed. Assistant judicial medical officer of Puttalam general hospital Dr. Kulendra Kanth and inquirer into sudden deaths, Mr. Nandana Wimaraweera inspected the body and the location concerned. A Karuwalagaswewa police team in conducting investigations. 

(Augustin Fernando, H. Chandana, Jayaratna Wickramaarachchi and Hiran Priyankara Jayasingha)