{"id":113955,"date":"2021-05-01T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113955"},"modified":"2021-05-01T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:23:34","slug":"new-covid-guidelines-related-to-public-activities-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/01\/new-covid-guidelines-related-to-public-activities-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID guidelines related to public activities issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has issued new guidelines pertaining to permitted public activities under \u2018Alert Level 3\u2019 amidst the upsurge in virus infections in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new guidelines will be in effect from today (May 01) until further notice, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guidelines are supported by the previously guidelines and circulars previously issued by the Health Ministry with regard to the relaxation of public activities in response to COVID-19, which include operational details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health authorities have introduced an \u2018Alert Level\u2019 system based on an understanding of public and work settings in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alert Level 1 \u2013 Cases reported are only those coming from outside the country (detected in quarantine); no clusters<br>Alert Level 2 \u2013 One cluster of cases<br>Alert Level 3 \u2013 Several clusters in different districts&nbsp;<br>Alert Level 4 \u2013 Cases are appearing with no connection to any cluster (community transmission)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As identified by the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka is currently at Alert Level 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new guidelines are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-scribd wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-scribd wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New COVID Guidelines Related to Public Activities (Sinhala)\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/505713273\/content\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7061128526645768\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"505713273\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()        <\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has issued new guidelines pertaining to permitted public activities under \u2018Alert Level 3\u2019 amidst the upsurge in virus infections in Sri Lanka. The new guidelines will be in effect from today (May 01) until further notice, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said. 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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955","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=113955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}