{"id":100104,"date":"2020-03-18T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100104"},"modified":"2020-03-18T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:20:18","slug":"police-curfew-in-puttalam-chilaw-negombo-kochchikade-to-be-temporarily-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/18\/police-curfew-in-puttalam-chilaw-negombo-kochchikade-to-be-temporarily-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Police curfew in Puttalam, Chilaw, Negombo-Kochchikade to be temporarily lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Police curfew imposed within Puttalam District and Negombo-Kochchikade area to contain the spread of COVID-19 within the country will be lifted at 8.00 am today (19), says the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, curfew will be re-imposed at 2.00 pm in the afternoon and will be in force until further notice, the Police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This measure is being taken to carry on submission of nominations without disruption in the following areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Puttalam Police Division:<\/strong><br>Puttalam, Anamaduwa, Kalpitiya, Karuwalagaswewa, Mundalama, Nawagattegama, Pallama, Vanathavilluwa, Udappuwa, Norachcholai, Saliya Wewa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chilaw Police Division:<\/strong><br>Chilaw, Dankotuwa, Koswatta, Madampe, Marawila, Wennappuwa, Arachchikattuwa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Negombo Police Division:<\/strong><br>Kochchikade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The government yesterday imposed police curfew in Puttalam District and Kochchikade Police Division in Negombo from 4.30 pm last evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curfew was enforced in 11 police divisions in Puttalam, 7 in police divisions in Chilaw and the Kochchikade police division in Negombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police have advised the general public to minimize movement after the curfew is lifted and to stay inside their respective residences after curfew is enforced again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only movement of public transport vehicles and urgent travels will be allowed while the curfew is in force, the Police noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air passengers who are scheduled to reach Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake can use their flight ticket as a curfew permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew imposed within Puttalam District and Negombo-Kochchikade area to contain the spread of COVID-19 within the country will be lifted at 8.00 am today (19), says the Department of Government Information. However, curfew will be re-imposed at 2.00 pm in the afternoon and will be in force until further notice, the Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104","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=100104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}