{"id":101260,"date":"2020-04-18T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101260"},"modified":"2020-04-18T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T22:06:33","slug":"coronavirus-risk-has-not-yet-subsided-dr-jasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/18\/coronavirus-risk-has-not-yet-subsided-dr-jasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus risk has not yet subsided \u2013 Dr. Jasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Despite the spread of COVID-19 within the country has been controlled to a certain point, the risk still has not subsided, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says that the risk will not cease to be until the end of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus may spread in the country as a second wave of infections, Jasinghe pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, responding to a statement by former MP Mano Ganesan, Dr. Jasinghe said that persons without knowledge of the health sector or epidemics should not make statements on COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services was referring to a statement made by the Leader of Tamil Progressive Alliance that the government is concealing the true figures of the spread and infections of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epidemiologists cannot make successful studies of an epidemic without true facts and figures, pointed out. He further said that a health process that involves the people cannot succeed by hiding true facts from the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, issuing a statement, Dr. Anil Jasinghe said that no circulars had been issued halting routine surgeries in hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that circulars on how to maintain health services were issued at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak and they were updated as necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the hospitals can perform such surgeries with certain protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with the downsizing of the daily staff to maintain social distancing, there may be inadequate staff to perform routine surgeries, he pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Despite the spread of COVID-19 within the country has been controlled to a certain point, the risk still has not subsided, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. He says that the risk will not cease to be until the end of the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus may spread in the country [&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-101260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101260","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=101260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}