The JVP says the COVID vaccination process has been completely politicised.
JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaking to media at the party’s headquarters said incidents of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Ministers and Parliamentarians reserving vaccine quotas have been reported.
MP Dissanayake said lives have become mere numbers to rulers who have no empathy towards human lives.
The Parliamentarian charged the government of playing with citizens, country’s economy and the future of the children adding they should self-reflect as to why the virus became a pandemic.
He said if the government remains delusional, the situation will deteriorate. MP Dissanayake requested the President and the government to conduct a comprehensive review and take strict and necessary steps adding if not the travel restrictions and the sacrifices of the people, the economy and the general public will be in vain.
MP Dissanayake also pointed out the complications arising within the society due to the travel restrictions imposed to mitigate the spread of the corona virus being impractical.
The MP said the public must be clearly informed of the travel restrictions.
He said the trust of the society has been broken on the data and details of the pandemic adding many citizens complain where details of some individuals who succumbed to the virus are not recorded on the data published.
MP Dissanayake said the government should build the trust in the citizen on the data as the public has no trust on the data reported adding details reported are essential to the public as they need to know of the spread of the pandemic, know if their area has been contaminated.
He said only then will the public adhere to the travel restrictions and isolations.