Govt’s failure to prevent Covid deaths worse than failure to prevent Easter Attacks: Tilvin

Criticizing the Government’s failure to intervene in preventing Covid mortality, JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said today that the Government should be responsible for Covid deaths even more than the previous government that was responsible for Easter Attacks deaths.

He told a news conference that the previous Government had to take the responsibility for failing to prevent the Easter Attacks, even when the intelligence apparatus warned of such an attack.

He said similarly, the Government is keeping mum and ignoing recommendations of the health authorities and health experts when daily Covid mortality is on the rise quite dangerously.

“ The Ranil-Maithri Government had to bear the responsibility for failing to prevent the Easter Sunday attack and was unable to save more than 300 precious lives, albeit there was intelligence alert. This Government is also not taking any action to prevent the Covid deaths even when data and information were available of the worsening pandemic and health experts urging to take prompt action. The Government was ignoring experts' recommendations, he said. 

He also added that this Government should be held responsible for Covid deaths rather than their predecessors who turned a blind eye to prevent the Easter Sunday Attack deaths.

He said 971 people have lost their lives due to  Covid-19 during the past ten days and added that with all those unfortunate scenario, the Government is still tight-lipped. (Ajith Siriwardana)