{"id":110231,"date":"2020-12-30T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110231"},"modified":"2020-12-30T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T00:51:30","slug":"rapid-antigen-test-conducted-on-galle-face-green-food-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/30\/rapid-antigen-test-conducted-on-galle-face-green-food-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Antigen Test conducted on Galle Face Green food vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, December 29 (Xinhua): In order to control the spread of the coronavirus, the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) on Tuesday conducted large-scale Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) in many public places to quickly detect persons with Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the cooperation of policemen, a medical officer, Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and other health workers went to Galle Face Green, a popular beachside walking area in the Sri Lankan capital, to conduct RAT on food vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Testing-2.-Phito.Tang-Lu.-Xinhua-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49855\"\/><figcaption>Long queues for at the testing tent. Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The food vendors are a permanent fixture at the Galle Face Green doing brisk business with the walkers and others who come for a jog or to take in the sea breeze.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tests were compulsory and free of charge for the vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Testing-3.-Photo.Tang-Lu-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49858\"\/><figcaption>Loud speaker used to alert vendors about the test. Photo: Tang Lu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a loudspeaker announcing the tests, vendors briskly headed towards the tent where the health workers had set up their equipment including a computer to record the data collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vendors, wearing face masks, patiently waited in a serpentine queue strictly observing social distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Testing-4.Photo_.Tang-Lu-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49859\"\/><figcaption>A vendor being instructed on what he should do next. Photo: Tang Lu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Health Officer checked every test result very carefully, the Public Health Inspectors instructed vendors who had tested positive on what to and what not to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine persons tested positive for COVID-19 at the Galle Face Green, &nbsp;Police Spokesman Deputy Inspector General &nbsp;Ajith Rohana told the local media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Testing-5-Photo.Tang-Lu.-Xinhua-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49861\"\/><figcaption>Health workers test a vendor. Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>RAT would be conducted randomly on passengers using public transport and persons in public places, Rohana added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Testing-6.-Photo.Tang-Lu.Xinhua-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49863\"\/><figcaption>Medical Officer checks information entered in the data base. Photo: Tang Lu\/Xinhua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(The featured photo at the top is by Tang Lu\/Xinhua)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 29 (Xinhua): In order to control the spread of the coronavirus, the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) on Tuesday conducted large-scale Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) in many public places to quickly detect persons with Covid-19. With the cooperation of policemen, a medical officer, Public Health Inspectors (PHI) and other health workers went [&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-110231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110231","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=110231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}