Consult Epidemiology unit before locking down areas-Health DG to PHs

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Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe yesterday instructed the country’s public health staff of the country that locking down of areas should be done in consultation with the Epidemiology Unit after careful risk analysis of the situation.

In a letter to regional health authorities, Dr. Jasinghe said that public health staff should do only home quarantining of contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
"If they feel that further measures like locking down of areas are necessary, it should be done in consultation with the Epidemiology Unit after careful risk analysis of the situation," he said.
He said the advisory has been sent after several incidents where locking down of small areas/villages by public health staff using their own discretion after reporting of confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported to him recently.

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Sambo Saturday, 11 April 2020 01:58 PM

No one knows what they are doing. Each takes his own decision making it hell for the public who are not suffering for the virus. They are shutting down areas like shutting doors and windows in their homes.

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KAMIL FALOOL Saturday, 11 April 2020 09:49 PM

Locking down made people suffering

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