UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe says it will take at least a decade to bounce back the country's economy which has suffered a severly.
He said the businesses are laying off their staff as they are running at a loss and Wickresinghe predicted that this situation would continue in 2022.
"It will take a decade for the economy to bounce back. Households are already suffering," he told a meeting with a group of youth in Borella on Sunday.
The Daily Mirror reported that Wickremesinghe saying "if te present situation continues, the people will have to forego one meal a day."
(Mirror)