{"id":103296,"date":"2020-06-08T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103296"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:50:06","slug":"burying-covid-19-victims-adversely-affects-environment-geology-expert-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/08\/burying-covid-19-victims-adversely-affects-environment-geology-expert-tells-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying COVID-19 victims adversely affects environment, geology expert tells court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>An expert in geology produced a report to the Supreme Court that the burial of persons deceased from COVID-19 infection may cause adverse effects in the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, 12 individuals, including the son of a COVID-19 victim, filed a Fundamental Rights petition claiming that the cremation of persons deceased from the virus is a violation of their fundamental rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition was heard before the Supreme Court Justices Sisira de Abrew and Yasantha Kodagoda today (08).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representing Professor Meththika Vithanage, President\u2019s Counsel Sanjeewa Jayawardena submitted a report compiled by the Professor to the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayawardena pointed out that according to the relevant report, the virus may enter the groundwater and soil by burying persons who had deceased from COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, the court postponed the hearing to July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana An expert in geology produced a report to the Supreme Court that the burial of persons deceased from COVID-19 infection may cause adverse effects in the environment. Previously, 12 individuals, including the son of a COVID-19 victim, filed a Fundamental Rights petition claiming that the cremation of persons deceased from the virus 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-103296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103296","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=103296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}