We respect Dr.Wasantha Bandara’s opinion but according to news reports the DGHS has mentioned about carrying out a sampling test for people “near those who were found to be infected”. At the same time he has mentioned that testing of contacts would be increased. Perhaps he differentiates between conducting tests such as PCR on the relatively less numbers of “contacts of infected persons” against a higher number of “people living near those who were found to be infected”. Latter becomes a difficult task due to large numbers involved as well as limited laboratary facilities available in the country. Therefore until additional testing facilities are made available health authorities are compelled keep the people in the second group as suspects under observation in quarentine.