{"id":108013,"date":"2020-10-25T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108013"},"modified":"2020-10-25T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:23:49","slug":"statement-on-the-spread-of-false-news-about-a-member-of-security-staff-being-diagnosed-with-covid-19-at-the-prime-ministers-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/25\/statement-on-the-spread-of-false-news-about-a-member-of-security-staff-being-diagnosed-with-covid-19-at-the-prime-ministers-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on the spread of false news about a member of Security staff being diagnosed with COVID-19 at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There has been a circulation of false news\nthat a member of Security staff from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has tested\npositive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with complete responsibility that we\nconfirm this news to be false, no internal security member from the Prime\nMinister\u2019s Office, Temple Trees or the Wijerama Residence has tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in fact a member of the external\nunit of the Prime Minister\u2019s advanced security division that has been diagnosed\npositive with COVID-19. The respective individual has not reported to work\nsince the 17th of October, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We request all Sri Lankan citizens to\nremain cautious, and vigilant during these challenging times and not fall\nvictim to any such false news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit There has been a circulation of false news that a member of Security staff from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has tested positive. It is with complete responsibility that we confirm this news to be false, no internal security member from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Temple Trees or the Wijerama Residence has [&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-108013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108013","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=108013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}