{"id":108240,"date":"2020-11-01T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108240"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:24:50","slug":"presidents-decisions-to-prevent-covid-19-without-harming-public-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/01\/presidents-decisions-to-prevent-covid-19-without-harming-public-life\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s decisions to prevent Covid-19 without harming public life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken several decisions for Covid-19 prevention without harming the public life or the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had a meeting today (01) with members of the presidential task force for Covid-19 prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, he ordered that PCR tests for persons under home-quarantine be carried out on the 10th day and to allow them to return to normal life after 14 days if results return negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home-quarantine process should be made more efficient through constant monitoring by MoH officers, PHIs, police and the army, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, movements between the districts have been barred, excepting for the transportation of goods and other essential services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of the task force Basil Rajapaksa said the distribution of essential goods would continue as had been done previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district and divisional secretaries, Grama Niladhari officers and local government representatives will be given the responsibilities, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dole for the elderly and essential goods worth Rs. 10,000 for persons under home-quarantine would be provided to their homes, according to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president instructed further that if new cases were reported even after the spreading of the virus ended, the causes should be investigated separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that curfew permits be not issued in the western province and in the Eheliyagoda and Kuliyapitiya police areas and the Kurunegala municipality areas where a curfew will be in force until 09 November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken several decisions for Covid-19 prevention without harming the public life or the economy. He had a meeting today (01) with members of the presidential task force for Covid-19 prevention. Accordingly, he ordered that PCR tests for persons under home-quarantine be carried out on the 10th day 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-108240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240","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=108240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}