{"id":108467,"date":"2020-11-09T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108467"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:20:56","slug":"sri-lanka-to-allow-burials-for-covid-19-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/09\/sri-lanka-to-allow-burials-for-covid-19-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to allow burials for Covid-19 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sri Lanka will follow the guidelines of burials followed by other countries over COVID-19.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, November 9 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Monday instructed health authorities to look into the possibility of allocating a dry land for Muslims to bury any COVID19 victims hereon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka will follow the guidelines of burials followed by other countries over COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date Sri Lanka only allowed those who succumb to the virus to be cremated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka will follow the guidelines of burials followed by other countries over COVID-19. Colombo, November 9 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Monday instructed health authorities to look into the possibility of allocating a dry land for Muslims to bury any COVID19 victims hereon. Sri Lanka will follow the guidelines [&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-108467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108467","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=108467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}