A nightmare in a 'darker' world: persons with blindness under the Sri Lanka's COVID-19 shutdown

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all wakes of lives in many countries including Sri Lanka, an island nation in the South Asian region. Among severely hit community groups due to COVID-19 have been the persons with visual impairment and blindness, who represent the majority of disabled people. Tak...

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Published in:Disability & society 2021-08, Vol.36 (7), p.1192-1196
Main Authors: Suraweera, Theekshana, Jayathilaka, Ruwan, Thelijjagoda, Samantha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blindness
Community organizations
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
economy and poverty
Pandemics
People with disabilities
Physical disabilities
Poverty
visual disability
Visual impairment
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all wakes of lives in many countries including Sri Lanka, an island nation in the South Asian region. Among severely hit community groups due to COVID-19 have been the persons with visual impairment and blindness, who represent the majority of disabled people. Taking into consideration that the persons with disabilities generally fall into poverty-stricken cluster of the population and Sri Lanka has been passing turbulent times even prior to COVID-19, this paper argues that the people with visual impairment and blindness have been pushed from bad to worse, due to the shocks of COVID-19 strike.
ISSN:0968-7599
1360-0508
DOI:10.1080/09687599.2021.1927671