A Government is there to implement a programme to help daily wage earners if there is a lockdown. Today, they can’t even provide a bed in a hospital for them,” SJB MP Thalatha Athukorala said yesterday (11). “At a time when there is a deadly pandemic in the country, what is the one thing that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has done according to the advice and the recommendations of the health experts? As a percentage of the population, Sri Lanka is among the countries that are leading the world in terms of Covid-19 deaths. The highest number of daily deaths (124) was recorded yesterday, while 2,890 new cases were recorded.

Source: The Nation August 11, 2021 17:37 UTC