{"id":102111,"date":"2020-05-10T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102111"},"modified":"2020-05-10T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:57:46","slug":"sri-lanka-on-right-track-to-contain-covid-19-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/10\/sri-lanka-on-right-track-to-contain-covid-19-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka on right track to contain Covid-19: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is on the right track to contain the Covid-19 through the increased tracking, testing, isolation, and treatment strategy, the World Health Organization said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO issuing a statement said containment of COVID-19 is feasible and remains the top priority in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Preparedness and Response Plan is implemented with the overall goal to interrupt the transmission of the virus from one person to another using a comprehensive blended approach of containment and mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enhanced testing of the contacts of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 has led to the increased identification people who have COVID-19 and appropriate reporting in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the safety of frontline workers both health and non-health should be prioritized, and availability of personal protective equipment must be ensured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local innovations have eased the stress for some of these; however, adequate stocks need to be ensured in the event of a spike of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contribution from WHO and DFAT will support the country in its fast and agile response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is on the right track to contain the Covid-19 through the increased tracking, testing, isolation, and treatment strategy, the World Health Organization said. WHO issuing a statement said containment of COVID-19 is feasible and remains the top priority in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Preparedness and Response Plan is [&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-102111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102111","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=102111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}