All the COVID-19 variants, except for the Brazilian variant had entered Sri Lanka due to the failure in the Government's COVID prevention mechanism and arbitrary actions of the government not heeding to advice of the doctors and specialists on prevention of the pandemic, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged today.
JVP National organiser Tilvin Silva told a news conference that the number of patients has been drastically increasing, exceeding the Hospital capacity.
He said the government was making plans to increase hospital bed capacity rather than finding ways to reduce the number of patients.
"The Army Commander once said, no one will be allowed to be dead on the road and everyone would be provided with a bed for treatment. The issue is not with normal beds, but special beds required for ICUs. Normal beds will be of no use," he said.
Mr. Silva said State Minister Sudarshani Fernandopulle appealed to affluent people to make donations as the situation was serious and added that people were left in the lurch as to what happened to the COVID Fund?
"These people are very much interested in Funds. They defrauded the Tsunami Funds. No information is available on COVID Fund now," he said.(Daily Mirror)