{"id":110011,"date":"2020-12-23T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110011"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T23:59:51","slug":"four-passengers-test-covid-19-positive-in-kandy-bound-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/23\/four-passengers-test-covid-19-positive-in-kandy-bound-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Four passengers test COVID-19 positive in Kandy-bound buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Four passengers were found COVID-19 positive when Rapid Antigen tests performed on them while travelling in passenger buses at Danovita on the Colombo-Kandy Road yesterday, Mirigama Public Health Inspector (PHI) Nishantha Somaratne said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said 250 passengers were tested on Tuesday, and four of them were found COVID-19 positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are residents of Dodangaslanda, Giriulla, Beruwala and Nelundeniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buses in which the infected had travelled were disinfected and the infected were taken to hospital.(<strong>Pushpakumara<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Mallawaarachchi<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Four passengers were found COVID-19 positive when Rapid Antigen tests performed on them while travelling in passenger buses at Danovita on the Colombo-Kandy Road yesterday, Mirigama Public Health Inspector (PHI) Nishantha Somaratne said today. He said 250 passengers were tested on Tuesday, and four of them were found COVID-19 positive. They [&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-110011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110011","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=110011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}