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Posted on December 31st, 2020 By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, December 31: The coronavirus pandemic, which began in March and is still on, made 2020 a very stressful year for Sri Lankans of all classes, particularly the poor and the lower middle classes. The pandemic directly stalled economic development because of lockdowns, curfews and movement restrictions. It indirectly disrupted communal harmony when the government banned the burial of the COVID dead – a prohibition which hurt the Muslim minority for whom cremating the dead is haram” – a religious taboo. The country is now seeing demonstrations for and against burial.