{"id":109961,"date":"2020-12-21T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109961"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:15:41","slug":"covid-3rd-wave-spreading-fast-sri-lanka-should-not-open-airport-for-tourists-case-for-immediate-lockdown-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/21\/covid-3rd-wave-spreading-fast-sri-lanka-should-not-open-airport-for-tourists-case-for-immediate-lockdown-now\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID 3RD WAVE  SPREADING FAST. SRI LANKA SHOULD NOT OPEN AIRPORT FOR TOURISTS! \u2013 CASE FOR IMMEDIATE LOCKDOWN NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It\nseems large sums of funds spent by all governments to combat Covid has not\nproduced the beneficial results.&nbsp; Average persons continue to disregard\nthe health warnings and put lives at risk.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\nattract tourists $, Sri Lanka and its Tourism Minister is planning to open the\nAirports on the Boxing Day.&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>To put it in a nutshell, this is an\nabsolute madness.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All\nhardwork done by the health authorities in Sri Lanka during first phase had now\nbeen forgotten.&nbsp; Putting tremendous pressure on limited resources in the\nhealth sector, the Ministers must face the reality instead of playing for the\ngallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\nassume things are getting back to normal is not real.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the gates are\nopened for the festive seasons, Sri Lanka will be at the receiving end of <strong>further\nincreasing the number of positive cases, in a very short period of time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nmethod of systematically isolating selected streets, suburbs&nbsp; has\nfailed.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nurge to refrain from opening the Airport and enforce complete lockdown&nbsp; of\nthe country, prior to the festive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\ndecision is needed urgently instead of sending wrong signals&nbsp; to Sri\nLankans and prospective foreign tourists to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka can no longer boast about the&nbsp; positive image established\n&nbsp;&nbsp;during the first phase of Covid spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE It seems large sums of funds spent by all governments to combat Covid has not produced the beneficial results.&nbsp; Average persons continue to disregard the health warnings and put lives at risk.&nbsp; To attract tourists $, Sri Lanka and its Tourism Minister is planning to open the Airports on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109961","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=109961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}