31 March 2020 12:08 am
“I request local politicians to be responsible in making statements with regard to this crisis. The statement that the pastor in Arunodaya Mawatha took a group to a mass in Jaffna, to attempt to link it to the incident with a pastor there with suspected Coronavirus, is baseless. No one went to Jaffna,” he said. He said Kotte Mayor’s statement that a pastor took people to Jaffna to try and link it to the issue there created unnecessary tension in the area. “It was later found to be false,” he said.