{"id":110767,"date":"2021-01-18T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110767"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:13:44","slug":"minister-of-education-prof-g-l-peiris-enters-into-self-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/18\/minister-of-education-prof-g-l-peiris-enters-into-self-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Education, Prof. G. L. Peiris, enters into self-isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Education, Prof. G. L. Peiris, has entered into a period of self-isolation, sources say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0da2\u0dd3.\u0d91\u0dbd\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dba\u0d82 \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db1\u0dba\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjoH-t8qA7E?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>This is after being identified as a contact of State Minister Piyal Nishantha who has been diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today (18), State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School &amp; Primary Education, School Infrastructure &amp; Education Services Piyal Nishantha was confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus following a rapid antigen test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Minister Nishantha is the 4th Member of the Parliament to have been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Minister of Education, Prof. G. L. Peiris, has entered into a period of self-isolation, sources say. This is after being identified as a contact of State Minister Piyal Nishantha who has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Earlier today (18), State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School &amp; Primary Education, School Infrastructure &amp; [&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-110767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110767","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=110767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}