{"id":100016,"date":"2020-03-16T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100016"},"modified":"2020-03-16T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:10:45","slug":"govt-declares-three-day-special-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/16\/govt-declares-three-day-special-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. declares three-day special public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government of Sri Lanka has declared a special public holiday for the next three days. The declared three-day holiday is also applicable to the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the holiday will be in effect from tomorrow (17) until Thursday (19), the government announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1 3\u0d9a \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc1\u0dba\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dad\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9559scy9_lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this special three-day holiday will be effective for departments, corporations and state institutions excluding health, food supply, transport, essential services, banking, District Secretariats and Divisional Secretariats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had requested the private sector to also grant the three-day holiday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decision on extending the holiday is to be considered after monitoring the spread of the Covid-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan government declared Monday (March 16) a public holiday after the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose alarmingly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka has declared a special public holiday for the next three days. The declared three-day holiday is also applicable to the private sector. Accordingly, the holiday will be in effect from tomorrow (17) until Thursday (19), the government announced.\u00a0 However, this special three-day holiday will be effective for departments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}