Achieving herd immunity
Christian Drosten, who directs the Institute of Virology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, was one of those who identified the Sars virus in 2003....
Squeezed by foreign lenders
As Sri Lanka battles COVID-19 with its public health expertise and military might, it is gearing up for another imminent crisis — servicing its mounting...
Laws contain references to vaguely defined offences
As Governments face the formidable challenge of protecting people from COVID-19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on them to ensure...
Treat this as a humanitarian issue
The SAARC Secretariat should play an active role in the region’s response to COVID-19, along with “someone in-charge”, according to Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister...
Federalism and Post-War Reconciliation
Following his election as president of Sri Lanka in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken a strong stand against federalism and devolution of powers to protect...
Pandemic is not only a national issue
The former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke to Palki Sharma, on the global leadership series on WION, about everything from the COVID-19...
Home Brewing
“DATES, JAGGERY?” asked the grocer, offering the main ingredients for brewing palm wine. His client bought the two, put them away with his onions and...
A century ago…
Exactly a 100 year ago, Sri Lanka had the experience of going through a horrendous pandemic the Spanish flu or influenza, which claimed nearly 20,000...
How to get out of the lockdown?
As the lockdown nears the three-week mark, people want to know when the restrictions will be lifted. But it also matters how they are lifted....
‘History Repeats Itself’
‘And People Stayed Home’ A Famine Poem by Kathleen O’Meara - 1869. And people stayed home And read books and listened And rested and exercised...
Fighting the Pandemic
Some 10,000 frontline health workers in Sri Lanka are working tirelessly to arrest the spread of COVID-19 that has affected 235 people and claimed seven...
COVID is a test of Leadership
“We simply cannot return to where we were just a few months ago”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in an informal...
Eye Sri Lanka wishes its readers a peaceful and prosperous Sinhala and Tamil New Year
May the New Year bring you joy and contentment in these difficult times.
A virus Vs the world
Death has been dubbed ‘the great leveller’. This sobriquet fits, in that the Grim Reaper does not discriminate against anyone. Coronavirus may also be considered...
The chaos when curfew was lifted should not be allowed to recur.
Six Chair Professors of Medicine (and specialist physicians) have expressed their opinion on an exit strategy from the current Covid-19 lockdown. Prof. Janaka de Silva...