{"id":117130,"date":"2021-08-15T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117130"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:52:36","slug":"pm-says-children-above-12-years-will-be-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/15\/pm-says-children-above-12-years-will-be-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says children above 12 years will be vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Courtesy Adaderana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government plans to provide COVID-19 immunization to children over 12 years of age step by step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister mentioned this speaking at the inauguration of the Southern Province COVID-19 Child Care Unit at the Hambantota Hospital, today (August 15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister joined the event through a video call from the Carlton House in Tangalle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that priority will be given to children with various complications when vaccinating children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept of the Pediatric Medical Association is to establish COVID-19 Pediatric Units in every province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government plans to provide COVID-19 immunization to children over 12 years of age step by step. The Prime Minister mentioned this speaking at the inauguration of the Southern Province COVID-19 Child Care Unit at the Hambantota Hospital, today (August 15). The Prime Minister joined the event [&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-117130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117130","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=117130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}