In tatters: Sri Lanka’s excessive pandemic response
Government’s extreme measures to contain the garment factory outbreak put workers at a great disadvantage.
Amantha Perera is a Sri Lankan researcher at the School of Education and the Arts of the Central Queensland University, Australia. He is in the final stages of his master’s research project on the impact of online trauma threats on journalism during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
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