{"id":101023,"date":"2020-04-11T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101023"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:54:08","slug":"covid-19-sri-lankan-navy-intensifies-patrolling-to-prevent-spread-of-disease-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/11\/covid-19-sri-lankan-navy-intensifies-patrolling-to-prevent-spread-of-disease-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Sri Lankan Navy intensifies patrolling to prevent spread of disease from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy India Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through &#8220;infected&#8221; Indian fishermen that it fears might &#8220;poach&#8221; in their territorial waters.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/story\/202004\/navy-story_647_061217071039_09-770x433.jpeg?mc3EzOlUxTv3.fT6dih37EgQRc.c6sgr\" alt=\" \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>he Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through &#8220;infected&#8221; Indian fishermen that it fears might &#8220;poach&#8221; in their territorial waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navy chief Piyal de Silva on Friday said they have strengthened patrolling, especially in northern, western and northwestern coastal areas. The Lankan Airforce would also be on hand to assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a possibility that infected Indian fishermen could poach in our waters. They could have contact with our people and pass on the virus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poaching in each other&#8217;s waters by fishermen of both the countries has been a recurring problem since the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The frequent incidents of poaching have drawn top-level talks between the two nations across the Palk Strait, which is between Tamil Nadu and Jaffna district of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fishermen issue also figured in the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa during the latter&#8217;s visit to India in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the issue, Modi had said both sides have decided to adopt a humanitarian approach in dealing with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It directly affects the livelihood of the people of both countries. Therefore, we agreed to continue to adopt a constructive and humanitarian approach in dealing with the issue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is under a lockdown since last month to tackle the fast-spreading virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has till now reported 197 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 7 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy India Today The Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through &#8220;infected&#8221; Indian fishermen that it fears might &#8220;poach&#8221; in their territorial waters. he Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through &#8220;infected&#8221; Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023","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=101023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}