Sri Lanka's High Risk Gamble With Tourism Amid UK's New Covid Strain
Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka|December 29, 2020
Amid the persisting COVID-19 pandemic, the shutting down of cities and unleashing death and economic ruin are having far-reaching consequences than the loss of jobs and income.
Ranga Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka's High Risk Gamble With Tourism Amid UK's New Covid Strain

Amid the persisting COVID-19 pandemic, the shutting down of cities and unleashing death and economic ruin are having far-reaching consequences than the loss of jobs and income. As it increasingly becomes clear, economic considerations are compelling governments to overlook the threat of the virus. The danger in this approach is that it could end up losing at both ends. This is a fair bit of warning for Sri Lanka as it plans to bring in tourists while the country is losing its grip on the second wave of the COVID-19 spread.

Sri Lanka had commendable success in containing the COVID-19 until October when a new cluster emerged in an apparel factory at Minuwangoda. A highly contagious new virus strain was found in the wave of new cases, and health officials suspected it had been transmitted from the members of a Ukrainian aircrew that was undergoing self-isolation in a local hotel.

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