{"id":108494,"date":"2020-11-10T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108494"},"modified":"2020-11-10T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:48:34","slug":"burial-of-covid-19-victims-govt-will-not-oppose-if-health-sector-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/10\/burial-of-covid-19-victims-govt-will-not-oppose-if-health-sector-approves\/","title":{"rendered":"Burial of Covid-19 victims: Govt will not oppose if health sector approves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government will only take a decision to bury Muslim citizens who died due to Covid-19 disease on the advice of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Health, Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to questions on whether the government has taken a decision to bury Muslims who died due to Covid 19 disease, the Minister said the government would only agree to act on the recommendation given by the health sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government will give its approval most likely today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last rites of people who die of Covid-19 disease are not based on race or religion. The decision will only be taken on the advice of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said that the government would not oppose the recommendation to bury Covid-19 victims on the instructions of the health authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When burying the bodies of those who died due to Covid 19, a dry land was selected to prevent the germs from the corpses seeping into ground water\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said that Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi had clarified the facts at the recent Cabinet meeting which has been approved by many countries in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ceylon Thwaheed Jamaath (CTJ) yesterday thanked President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for permitting the burial of deceased COVID-19 victims of Islamic faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government will only take a decision to bury Muslim citizens who died due to Covid-19 disease on the advice of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Health, Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera said. Responding to questions on whether the government has taken a decision to bury Muslims who died [&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-108494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108494","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=108494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}