Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sought to ridicule the ongoing vaccination programme to beat coronavirus. He has said Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was fraught with danger of turning people into ladies with beards or even crocodiles.
Bolsonaro has categorically stated that he will never get inoculated against COVID-19, which he has called a mild flu not to be taken seriously. He has said that the Pfizer contract, which says it is not responsible for any side effects from the vaccine, and would not take responsibility for anything that happens to the people who get the jab even if they turn into crocodiles.
More than 630 COVID-19 cases had been detected in the Southern Province, the Provincial anti-COVID-19 coordination office said yesterday. Coordinating Officer Chamara Mahagamage said that by 8 am yesterday, a total of 639 had tested COVID-19 positive in the Province.
On Saturday, 54 cases were reported from the province and out of that number 50 were from the Galle District. Thundoowa – West and Thundoowa-East Grama Niladari Divisions in Induruwa MOH area were declared isolated after 41 cases were reported on Saturday.
The Galle Municipal Council decided not to implement a recommendation by health officials, on Saturday morning, to impose restrictions on movement of people in eight Grama Niladari Divisions in the Galle Municipal Council area. Mayor of Galle Priyantha Sahabandu said that in his opinion the spread of COVID-19 in Galle had slowed down.
By M.A. Kaleel
Coronavirus does not spread through soil or groundwater and even if you bury the COVID-19 infected bodies without a burial vault, the transmission of the virus does not occur, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has said.
” This is the absolute truth. I do not say this based on superstitious belief like throwing clay pots into rivers to get rid of COVID-19, but having listened to prominent experts in this field here and abroad. I did not speak anything on this matter before this because I did not want to do it without consulting experts in the field.
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Despite the pandemic, the Maldives has in recent months seen a tourism revival. Fears are expressed that the move to bury Sri Lanka Muslims dying of COVID-19 in the Maldives may have an adverse impact on the tourism sector.
A move to bury in neighbouring Maldives Sri Lankan Muslims, who die of coronavirus infection, has misfired.
Both Colombo and Male have mysteriously dropped the move without adducing any reason. Perhaps they realised that the exercise is fraught with many political and international implications for the two countries. This is besides the opposition mounting in the archipelago, a tourist paradise with blue waters and white sandy beaches. Both Covid-19 victims and all other dead are buried in a cemetery located near the