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A nightmare in a ‘darker’ world: persons with blindness under the Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 shutdown

Theekshana SuraweeraSLIIT Business School, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri LankaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1756-7447
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Ruwan JayathilakaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Samantha ThelijjagodaSLIIT Business School, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri LankaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-1603
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Pages 1192-1196 | Received 05 Jul 2020, Accepted 30 Apr 2021, Published online: 28 May 2021

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