Medical specialists in Sri Lanka have said the coming weeks are critical for the COVID-19 crisis.
The country has seen a huge rise in infections and deaths that experts said was connected to the Delta variant.
Despite a vaccine blitz rolled out by the government, footage of hospitals overflowing with COVID-19 patients has gone viral.
Al Jazeera's Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.

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