It seems that only one cluster of Coronavirus infected persons – the Navy cluster that constitutes half of the total infected persons so far - is active now in Sri Lanka, according to the health and defence authorities, who are in the frontline in fighting the COVID19 threat.
As if to confirm this point they always emphasise these days that almost all new detection of infections are related to the Navy personnel, who are believed to have been infected with the deadly virus while they were pursuing contact persons of an infected man in Suduwella, Ja Ela.
Some days they report about new infections outside of this cluster, but those reports come from quarantine centres – from among persons confined on suspicion of being infected with the virus. Then the picture given to the country by the authorities is that they have completely contained the threat as no cases have been reported from unexpected areas for the past few weeks.
In other words, all COVID-19 patients and possible patients have been identified and encased. This is the rationale behind the decision to ease the restrictions imposed on more than 22 million people in the country in varying degrees in various districts for the past two months.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that before any country begins to lift restrictions, it should have the epidemic under control, ensure that its health systems can cope with a potential resurgence and have necessary testing, tracing and isolating infrastructure in place. Sri Lankan leaders seem to believe that the country complies with this.
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