The covid 19 pandemic has now cover entire world. Today, more than one billion people suffered from Covid 19. Death roll is over 2 million. Countries such as America, India, Brazil report lot of cases. Most of European Countries.
The UK, USA, China, France, Russia, and India have developed some vaccines to combat the epidemic, and already providing vaccines to their citizens in several stages.
Sri Lanka recently received 60,000 doses of Indian- made COVISHEILD vaccine, which is currently being donated to the Health and defense sectors.
The WHO said that the epidemic will be difficult to control until about 60% of the population is vaccinated.
In Sri Lanka, where the Covid epidemic has been under control to some extent, the coming weeks seem to be losing some control. Dr. Haritha Aluthge of the Government Medical Association stated that more than 5% of patients are being reported from every district in Sri Lanka.
He added that the number of PCR tests per day should be increased from 15,000 to at least 20,000 to control the situation to some extent. He points out that the disease is spreading rapidly in districts such as Ratnapura and Kurunegala, but the lack of PCR testing machines in major hospital systems such as the Colombo National Hospital and the Kalubowila Hospital is still a big problem.
Also, the number of Covid deaths in Sri Lanka was 21 on November 1, but today the number has increased to 313. Also, the number of patients reported has increased rapidly and in the last two weeks alone between 750-850 patients have been reported daily.