Chief Prelates of the Asgiri and Malwathu chapters request the President and the Prime Minister to lockdown the country for a period of 01 week to control the spread of Covid-19.

Meanwhile Sri Lanka Medical Association SLMA requests from government to declare a very severe mobility restriction amounting to a lockdown for a minimum of 2 weeks while maintaining essential services and the programme for vaccination uninterrupted. Also they requests from government to allocate vaccines that provide some immunity even with a single dose to all elders and to people with comorbidities