{"id":109476,"date":"2020-12-08T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109476"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:18:10","slug":"local-syrup-to-cure-covid-people-flock-in-numbers-ignore-covid-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/08\/local-syrup-to-cure-covid-people-flock-in-numbers-ignore-covid-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Local syrup to cure covid :People flock in numbers &#8211; ignore covid regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A large number of people arrived in the Udumagama area in Kegalle today (08) violating quarantine laws to obtain a locally made syrup which was declared to be able to control the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dab\u0dd2\u0dba \u0db6\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd3\u0db8 \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2 - \u0dc4\u0dda\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc0 \u0db8\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYKtlMGX0nE?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>Dhammika Bandara, the manufacturer of the local syrup, distributed it free of charge to the people and there was no sign of the visitors maintaining social distance of any sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202012\/1607437846_1290543_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Local+syrup+to+cure+covid+%3APeople+flock+in+numbers+-+ignore+covid+regulations+\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Dhammika Bandara who manufactured this drug was not seen wearing a face mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana stated that the Kegalle SSP has been instructed to conduct an investigation and submit a report regarding reports that health guidelines have been violated at the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Editor of the Government Medical Officers&#8217; Association, Dr. Haritha Aluthge stated that the effectiveness of this drug has not been confirmed yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we tried to contact Dhammika Bandara, the inventor of the syrup several times over the phone to inquire about this &#8216;so called miracle cure&#8217;, he did not respond <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A large number of people arrived in the Udumagama area in Kegalle today (08) violating quarantine laws to obtain a locally made syrup which was declared to be able to control the coronavirus. Dhammika Bandara, the manufacturer of the local syrup, distributed it free of charge to the people and there was [&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-109476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109476","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=109476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}