The whole country is now awaiting a return to normal day to day life and economic revival –an exit from the “modified lock down”. The challenge in this task is to ensure a “balance” between the epidemic prevention and returning to normalcy in public life.
College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka has handed over a detailed proposal to the Government on an exit strategy from the current lock down state.
“Ending the curfew too soon could lead to a second outbreak, while enforcing it for too long could further cripple the economy and public morale. When to end the current phase must be decided at national level by an expert panel comprising health and non-health authorities with vigilant monitoring of the area-specific caseloads, as premature relaxation of the lockdown in any part of the country could affect the spread in the rest of the areas. If Sri Lanka can maintain the low numbers of new COVID-19 cases at national level along with no solid evidence of community transmission (i.e. no known epidemiological link for the transmission), moving to more and more relaxed phases can be considered with time.” Report said.
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