evidence: Sri Lanka was winning its battle with leprosy. Then came COVID-19 [...] But the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted Sri Lanka’s fight to eliminate leprosy , giving rise to concerns that thousands are being left undiagnosed and therefore untreated. [...] "COVID-19 and the shortage of fuel that followed affected the detection of cases in 2020, 2021, and early 2022. Now there are undiagnosed patients in the field," Dr Dilini Wijesekara, Consultant Community Physician at the Anti-Leprosy Campaign said.