{"id":101689,"date":"2020-04-29T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101689"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:25:41","slug":"cannot-make-predictions-on-covid-19-clusters-yet-anil-jasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/29\/cannot-make-predictions-on-covid-19-clusters-yet-anil-jasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot make predictions on COVID-19 clusters yet \u2013 Anil Jasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anil Jasinghe, Director General of Health Services, said no predictions can be made at the moment regarding the emergence of new COVID-19 clusters or the growth of existing clusters in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Health stated that all measures have been taken to control the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the detection of infected persons among naval personnel has arrived at the last stages, said the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is suspected that contacts of the infected Navy personnel such as neighbors, family members, and associates may contract the virus, the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials, as well as intelligence services, are keeping a close watch on the possible contacts, said Dr. Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Jasinghe said that while he does not think the existing COVID-19 clusters will not spread further, it is essential at this moment to keep a watchful eye on whether contacts of navy personnel will emerge from these clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, all suspected to have infected the virus have been directed for quarantine said the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is emphasized that the proper public adherence to health directives issued by the health sector is a key factor in the success of the disease control program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Dr. Anil Jasinghe, Director General of Health Services, said no predictions can be made at the moment regarding the emergence of new COVID-19 clusters or the growth of existing clusters in the country. Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Health stated that all measures have been taken to control the spread of the [&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-101689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101689","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=101689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}