{"id":100827,"date":"2020-04-06T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100827"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:37:19","slug":"covid-19-testing-further-expanded-in-coming-days-health-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/06\/covid-19-testing-further-expanded-in-coming-days-health-min\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 testing further expanded in coming days \u2013 Health Min."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that Sri Lanka\u2019s health sector has always been ahead of the South Asian countries with regard to the coronavirus eradication program.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0d87\u0dad\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd0\u0dba\u0dd2 \u0dad\u0dc4\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0d9c\u0dad \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0d9a\u0dd2 \u0daf  \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0dbb\u0da7\u0dc0\u0dbd\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd9\u0d9a \u0d85\u0dad\u0dbb \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/blk-Ahdq2zE?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>She added that Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are now being carried out in many hospitals across the island to identify COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 testing will be further expanded within the coming days, Wanniarachchi added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that Sri Lanka\u2019s health sector has always been ahead of the South Asian countries with regard to the coronavirus eradication program. She added that Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are now being carried out in many hospitals across the island to identify COVID-19 infections. The COVID-19 testing [&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-100827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100827","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=100827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}