{"id":102794,"date":"2020-05-25T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102794"},"modified":"2020-05-25T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:07:15","slug":"govt-mulls-limiting-repatriation-of-sri-lankans-stranded-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/25\/govt-mulls-limiting-repatriation-of-sri-lankans-stranded-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls limiting repatriation of Sri Lankans stranded abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government is currently looking into limiting the repatriation of Sri Lankans who are stuck overseas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stated Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He points out that the arrival of a large number of people from foreign countries could be problematic in a context where the issue of Sri Lanka Navy infections has not been resolved as of yet.<\/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=\"\u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbd\u0dcf\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0db8 \u0dc3\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dcf \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0db8\u0da7 \u0d85\u0dc0\u0db0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dba...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNTwluuYrVM?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>Therefore, the government may take a decision to restrict the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad, Jasinghe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, nearly 50 guidelines for carrying out various social activities are set to be released within the upcoming 2 days, the Director-General of Health Services said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relevant guideline will inform the general public on action to be followed once the curfew is lifted, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The government is currently looking into limiting the repatriation of Sri Lankans who are stuck overseas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stated Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. He points out that the arrival of a large number of people from foreign countries could be problematic in a context where the issue [&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-102794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102794","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=102794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}