Sri Lankans can probably answer this but Sri Lanka is in a vicious cycle - Covid-19 devastated tourism, which reduced the foreign currency reserves, which weakened the Sri Lankan Rupee, which made imports costly for an island that depends on imports for many basic necessities. This combined with harebrained policies of the President have put Sri Lanka, one of the richest countries (by per capita GDP) in the Indian subcontinent onto a path of economic devastation.