Sri Lanka, Jan. 21 -- Although all age groups are at risk of contracting COVID-19, older people face significant risk of developing severe symptoms if they contract the disease due to physiological changes that come with ageing and potential underlying health conditions.

In many countries, older people are facing more and more threats and challenges than the challenges they had already been facing since the pandemic. According to statistics, the pandemic has taken its greatest toll among older adults in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

In Sri Lanka too, the majority of deaths from the coronavirus was people over the age of 50. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has the fastest growing ageing population in South Asia and it is predicted th...