Webinar on Long-Term Social Consequences of the Covid Pandemic: Enduring Social Impacts, Challenges and Responses

It was in this backdrop that the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka organised this workshop with the support of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) and with financial support from the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). [...] Religion: Religion has contributed towards personal comfort and social cohesion in the face of the pandemic; but controversies have been generated regarding adopting purely spiritual measures against the pandemic, the numbers allowed to gather for worship, and the burials of COVID victims. [...] He took the opportunity to explain the main objective of the webinar, which is to use evidence-based inquiry for examining the status and impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. [...] 4 The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) was established in 2012 through the merger of the Association of Sciences in Asia (AASA) and the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies (FASAS) to promote solidarity and cooperation among the scientific and technological academies in Asia and Oceania and to play a central role in cooperative efforts for furthe. [...] NASSL is a member of the Inter Academy Panel (IAP, the global network of science academies), the Inter Academy Medical Panel (IAMP), the Association of Academies and Societies of Science in Asia (AASSA) and the Science Council of Asia (SCA).