{"id":110765,"date":"2021-01-18T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110765"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:11:08","slug":"piyal-nishantha-contracts-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/18\/piyal-nishantha-contracts-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Piyal Nishantha contracts COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School &amp; Primary Education, School Infrastructure &amp; Education Services Piyal Nishantha has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was confirmed following a Rapid Antigen test for the virus, Ada Derana reporter stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Minister Nishantha is the 4th Member of the Parliament to contract COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Minister of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris entered into self-isolation as he was identified as a contact of the State Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School &amp; Primary Education, School Infrastructure &amp; Education Services Piyal Nishantha has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus infection. This was confirmed following a Rapid Antigen test for the virus, Ada Derana reporter stated. State Minister Nishantha is the 4th Member of the Parliament to contract [&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-110765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110765","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=110765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}