Nation wants to know

Why don't the government, its ministers and doctors working with the government answer tough questions on Covid numbers?

On Wednesday (July 1), the editorial director of this paper wrote an article pointing out the government is handling the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic crisis without advice from professional experts. Sadly, that’s not the only lapse as far as the pandemic goes. Almost as serious is the communication failure and the role of experts.

For a start, daily press conferences have stopped. There’s hasn’t been one for weeks. So aren’t they needed? Or does the government have nothing to say? Meanwhile, cases are surging and deaths steadily increasing. Yet the government is silent. Perhaps it believes if it doesn’t speak