Report
Social protection responses to COVID-19
in Sri Lanka
Highlights
As of 31 December 2021, there had been 587,245 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, 14,979 confirmed deaths, and 33.84 million vaccination doses administered (Our World in Data 2022). Sri Lanka’s score on the Oxford COVID-19 Stringency Index—a composite measure based on nine response indicators, including school closures, workplace closures and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100 (Hale et al. 2021)—has largely corresponded with COVID-19 outbreaks.
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English
ISBN
ISSN 2358-1379