{"id":100431,"date":"2020-03-28T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100431"},"modified":"2020-03-28T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:06:25","slug":"coronavirus-sri-lanka-terms-chennai-covid-19-high-risk-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/28\/coronavirus-sri-lanka-terms-chennai-covid-19-high-risk-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus | Sri Lanka terms Chennai COVID-19 \u2018high-risk zone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"auth-nm lnk\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/profile\/author\/Meera-Srinivasan-220\/\">Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/f66227\/article31194270.ece\/alternates\/FREE_960\/Corona-police\" alt=\"Wearing a coronavirus-themed helmet, Police Inspector Rajesh Babu speaks to a family at a checkpoint in Chennai on March 28, 2020.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alert as 4 test positive after city visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka on Saturday reported its first COVID-19 death, of a 65-year-old patient, who had diabetes and renal health complications, Health Ministry officials said. The island nation has 113 confirmed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/topic\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0patients so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s health officials have also detected four COVID-19 positive cases in people who recently returned from Chennai, prompting authorities to term Chennai a high-risk\u201d zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two cases detected today and two more cases from earlier this week were all Chennai returnees, Chennai is definitely a high-risk zone\u201d Director-General of Health Services told&nbsp;<em>The Hindu&nbsp;<\/em>on Saturday. The government has asked all those returned from Chennai in the last 14 days to report to health authorities for quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-March, Sri Lanka reported four persons \u2014 an Indian tourist and three Sri Lankans \u2014 who tested positive on arrival from India. With the latest detections, a total of eight cases have originated from India, according to authorities. Nine patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital, according to an official bulletin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/coronavirus-indian-among-100-patients-in-sri-lanka\/article31168091.ece\">Coronavirus | Indian among 100 patients in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka stopped flight arrivals in all its airports on March 17. For a week now, the island has been on a near-total shutdown and travel between districts has also been banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Alert as 4 test positive after city visit. Sri Lanka on Saturday reported its first COVID-19 death, of a 65-year-old patient, who had diabetes and renal health complications, Health Ministry officials said. The island nation has 113 confirmed\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0patients so far. Sri Lanka\u2019s health officials have also detected four COVID-19 positive [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100431","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=100431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}