Country in peril due to COVID – UNP

On Aug 1, 2021

UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardena yesterday said that the country is in peril as the present Government failed to take steps aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 at the right time.

“The Government should focus on the precarious situation in the country and take every possible effort to save the people from the pandemic,” he said.

Abeywardena was speaking at a press conference held at the party office in Galle yesterday.

He said that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading to every part of the country very fast.

“If the Government went for a crash programme to vaccinate the people by February this year, hundreds of lives could have been saved.”

Abeywardena said over sixty people die a day of COVID-19 now. Many lives could have been saved, if half of the population had been fully vaccinated. He said that the health authorities should be given a free hand to continue their efforts in mitigating the spread of the pandemic.

The Cabinet of Ministers and Parliament should be given more powers to control this situation.