She mentioned 100 metric tonnes of oxygen could be imported from India subsequent week and extra orders could be positioned relying on the necessity.
A gaggle of Sri Lankan well being consultants, who make the WHO impartial skilled group, has mentioned that sufferers depending on oxygen considerably elevated from 528 final week to 646 by August 12.
“If this pattern continues, there could possibly be a severe scarcity of oxygen provide and interruption of care,” she mentioned.
The well being consultants have warned that the variety of COVID-19 instances would enhance as much as 6,000 per day as much as mid September and deaths would peak to 220 per day by mid October.
Based on the present figures of the Well being Ministry, the typical figures are half of the anticipated rise.
The panel of well being consultants referred to as for a lockdown within the nation for 4 weeks. “The nation can have much less variety of instances of round 1,000 a day, deaths lower than 25 a day and ICU care to lower than 25 a day by October and avert 18,000 deaths by January 2022,” in response to their report.
They name for prioritising vaccination to these over 60, ideally with Pfizer, Moderna or
. They opine that “for the vaccine that’s used most generally, neighborhood vaccination will take 2-Three weeks after the second dose to offer sufficient safety”.
Sri Lanka has procured over 14 million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine to date and 10.6 million of them had been administered by August 7, making it essentially the most extensively used.
The panel says that as of August 9, lower than 15 per cent of the 21 million had been vaccinated. As fast measures they need restrictions to be positioned much like that prevailed in Could for four weeks.
Sri Lanka has recorded over 3.48 lakh coronavirus instances whereas the dying toll has touched 5,776.