{"id":104349,"date":"2020-07-09T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104349"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:43:36","slug":"56-from-kandakadu-rehab-center-and-female-counselor-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/09\/56-from-kandakadu-rehab-center-and-female-counselor-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"56 from Kandakadu rehab center and female counselor test positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Fifty-six persons from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre and a female counselor employed at the center have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to being transferred to the Welikada Prison, the recently COVID-19 infected inmate had been detained at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre for 03 months.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0db4\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0db3\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0dbb\u0ddd\u0d9c\u0dd3\u0db1\u0dca 57\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZ-ZX-TZEMw?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>Accordingly, 450 inmates and staff at the Rehabilitation Center had been subjected to PCR tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, 56 among them have been confirmed to have contracted the virus, stated the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a female from the Marawila area has also tested positive for coronavirus this morning (09). She is identified to be a counselor employed at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health sectors and security forces are currently taking all necessary action for testing and quarantining in relation to the matter, states the Government Information Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new cases, the total number of COVID-19 cases reported in the country has spiked to 2,151 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Fifty-six persons from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre and a female counselor employed at the center have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Prior to being transferred to the Welikada Prison, the recently COVID-19 infected inmate had been detained at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre for 03 months. Accordingly, 450 inmates and [&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-104349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104349","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=104349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}