Thank you for tackling this mammoth task

I, as a member of the public, would like to place on record, the gratitude I bear to the team led by the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Dr. Anil Jasinghe, the Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Lt. Gen. Shavendra De Silva and others, for having controlled effectively the spread of the coronavirus up to now. It was a mammoth task and professionally handled. It also highlights their professionalism.

News anchors of the electronic media are not aware that the discerning public are interested as to, who and where, each day are found as new victims of the coronavirus. The public could then assess whether community spread has occurred. The results, the dates, the numbers tested, the groups tested and findings in tests on random samples of the community must be made public by the DGHS whom we can rely on. Personally I know it would be very difficult to hide bad results from the doctor population, the ‘grape vine’ that it is.

Fake news is abundant on all media, because of a frenzy to be the first to bring it out because it helps the agenda of the media organization concerned. Verification of what comes out, however, needs to be a mandatory policy. Many members who are standing upright in this crisis are targets of unjustified character assassination .

With alarm bells ringing at the number of COVID-19 victims among those arriving from abroad, should not the cabins of aircraft bringing them be sanitized by the now proven viricidal powers of (harmless to humans) UV Light C (wave length 222)?

This may safeguard those not infected on board.

Dr. Channa Ratnatunga Via email