{"id":101066,"date":"2020-04-12T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101066"},"modified":"2020-04-12T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:36:20","slug":"gazette-issued-on-cremation-of-covid-19-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/12\/gazette-issued-on-cremation-of-covid-19-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazette issued on cremation of COVID-19 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has amended a law to make cremation compulsory for those dying from the novel coronavirus to prevent any potential threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance (Chapter 222) has been amended by a gazette issued by Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, the government said.<\/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>Wanniarachchi said that the body shall be burned at a temperature between 800 to 1200 degrees Celsius for a minimum period of 45 minutes to one hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that the cremation should take place at a cemetery or a place approved by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amended law prevents bodies from being handed over to anyone other than to persons who undertake the necessary duties of cremation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attire and non-reusable personal protective equipment used by persons who handle the corpse shall also be destroyed during cremation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/456100536\/Extraordinary-Gazette-on-Cremation-of-COVID-19-Victims#from_embed\">Extraordinary Gazette on Cremation of COVID-19 Victims<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/91626333\/Ada-Derana#from_embed\">Ada Derana<\/a>&nbsp;on Scribd<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has amended a law to make cremation compulsory for those dying from the novel coronavirus to prevent any potential threat. The Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance (Chapter 222) has been amended by a gazette issued by Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, the government said. Wanniarachchi said that the body shall be [&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-101066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101066","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=101066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}