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Structural reforms key to recreating the State and the social system-by victor Ivan Source:FT By now it is clear that Sri Lanka as a country has fallen into the ‘worst of times’ as never before.  It has been possible to keep the COVID mortality rate comparatively at a lower level, which, of course, was mainly due to the BCG vaccine administered to almost every citizen; yet currently, the pandemic is spreading freely, without control. The manner in which the COVID pandemic is being handled can be considered as an important index reflecting the extent of failure of Sri Lanka as a State. The pandemic situation  The main responsibility and the leadership of steering the program to arrest the spread of the pandemic has been assigned to the security forces, not the health authorities. The partial neglect of the civil officialdom in this exercise has gradually led them to confine their service ...