{"id":101857,"date":"2020-05-02T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101857"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:18:35","slug":"sri-lanka-has-handled-the-corona-virus-issue-brilliantly-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/02\/sri-lanka-has-handled-the-corona-virus-issue-brilliantly-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka has handled the Corona Virus issue brilliantly well."},"content":{"rendered":"

A Worried Citizen<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I think Sri\nLanka has handled the Coronavirus issue brilliantly well compared to many\nof the developed countries. Please look at the numbers below from the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-52491210<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see\nBelgium has the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people. I believe the\nreason for this is that Belgium is a small country with a high\npopulation density. Their population is 11.59 million and the land\narea is 11,849 Sq.miles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npopulation density is 978 people\/Sq.Mile. Sri Lanka has a\npopulation of 21.67 million and the land area is 25,332 Sq.Miles.\nTherefore the population density is 855 people\/Sq.Mile. We have to also\nremember that \u00be of the population lives in the Southwest quarter of the island\nwhich is very dense in terms of population. The real density is closer to 2556\npeople\/Sq.Mile.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belgium\nhas had 19.3 deaths per 100,000 people whereas Sri Lanka has had 0.03 deaths\nper 100,000 people (based on 7 deaths we had up to date).<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet some of our\nlying politicians in the opposition have started their usual lying all over\nagain now that the elections are drawing near. I would suggest that the\ngovernment should challenge all these false statements unlike in 2015 and\ntake them to courts for libel if any statements are false.<\/strong> Please\ndo not remain silent like in 2015. I hope the people will not be fooled by the\nlies put out by the JVP, TNA, and SJP  and vote correctly to save the\ncountry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My heartfelt\ngratitude to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda\nRajapaksa along with their team of doctors, and service personnel who have\nsaved us from a fate too fearful to even imagine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Worried Citizen I think Sri Lanka has handled the Coronavirus issue brilliantly well compared to many of the developed countries. Please look at the numbers below from the BBC. https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-52491210 As you can see Belgium has the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people. I believe the reason for this is that Belgium is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}