{"id":116986,"date":"2021-08-11T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116986"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T23:17:15","slug":"nearly-150000-persons-forgo-covid-vaccine-in-colombo-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/11\/nearly-150000-persons-forgo-covid-vaccine-in-colombo-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 150,000 persons forgo COVID vaccine in Colombo district"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Nearly 150,000 persons have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo district, Colombo District Secretary Pradeep Yasaratne said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said a total of 99,373 persons between the age 30 to 59 have forgone their vaccine while about 46,600 elderly above 60 have not taken their vaccine in the Colombo district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It has been observed that the majority of peope above 60, who have not got themselves vaccinated are residents of Colombo and Kolonnawa areas,&#8221; he underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The District Secretary said the Police have already launched an operation to identify the unvaccinated people and take them to vaccination centres with their consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health officials have set up a special vaccination center at the Shalika ground to administer vaccine for all unvaccinated people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to health authorities, there have been several misconceptions, which discourage people to get vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nearly 150,000 persons have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo district, Colombo District Secretary Pradeep Yasaratne said today. He said a total of 99,373 persons between the age 30 to 59 have forgone their vaccine while about 46,600 elderly above 60 have not taken their vaccine in [&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-116986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116986","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=116986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}