{"id":101064,"date":"2020-04-12T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101064"},"modified":"2020-04-12T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:33:06","slug":"decline-in-covid-19-cases-expected-anil-jasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/12\/decline-in-covid-19-cases-expected-anil-jasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in COVID-19 cases expected \u2013 Anil Jasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A decline&nbsp;in the coronavirus infections in the country is expected in the coming days, said Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patients identified are all linked to one patient; therefore, there is no difficulty in identifying the spread of the infection, Dr. Jasinghe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obtaining samples from high-risk sites for infection have been increased in order to curtail the spread of the virus, he added.<\/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=\"\u0db8\u0dc5\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d86\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0db1 \u0db1\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0dc3\u0da7\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dda...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W7GUUACunp8?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>Jasinghe further said that the results of the tests carried out yesterday could be expected today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a total of 208 samples have been collected from Punani quarantine camp alone and that is the highest number of samples obtained from a single site, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, cases of infection are still reported and this should be brought down to naught, Jasinghe pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing was carried out at quarantine centers even today (12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A decline&nbsp;in the coronavirus infections in the country is expected in the coming days, said Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. The patients identified are all linked to one patient; therefore, there is no difficulty in identifying the spread of the infection, Dr. Jasinghe said. Obtaining samples from high-risk sites for [&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-101064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101064","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=101064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}