Once again, early warnings ignored View(s):The Government has been in that awkward, unenviable ‘damned if you do; damned if you don’t’ situation of not putting in place stricter lockdown procedures and thereby allowing the deadly COVID-19 virus to gallop away. It is steadfastly refusing to admit the obvious: COVID-19 is now well and truly “community spread” in Sri Lanka. It was not long ago that the members of this Government pitched into, and rightly so, the previous Government for ignoring early warnings on the planned bombings of that fateful Easter Sunday of 2019. That same lethargy on the part of the current Administration has now come to bite back as early warnings of the presence of a new and decidedly more potent variant of the virus were prevalent early last month, and before the national new year holidays two weeks later. Sri Lanka got off to a slow start in acquiring the vaccine, but is now trapped in a web of intricate global imperialism and national self-interest aspects.

Source: Sunday Times May 02, 2021 00:54 UTC