Covid-19 Health regulations will have teeth
There is a strong case for strengthening the powers of the Government and its agencies to deal with Covid 19. The Health Act, 1947, was enacted to give sweeping powers to the Government to deal with infectious diseases. But it needs an urgent review to deal with a pandemic in modern times. As enacted, the […]
Five-year national programme needed in new reality of Covid-19
Just as we thought that the general election had created a perfect political storm in which no combination of two of the three largest parties could form a government unaided, we now have a national crisis superimposed on the political crisis. As crises go, the common coinage of politics right through the election campaign was […]