{"id":117132,"date":"2021-08-15T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117132"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T21:54:56","slug":"all-wedding-functions-banned-from-tuesday-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/15\/all-wedding-functions-banned-from-tuesday-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"All wedding functions banned from Tuesday midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>All weddings functions, irrespective of the venue, will not be allowed to be held from Tuesday (August 17) midnight, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been taken as a measure to control the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country.<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0daf \u0db8\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0db8 \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7 \u0daf\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db1 \u0dbb\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dd2...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFNb5O5gpzQ?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>Accordingly, weddings, whether held at home or at a reception hall, will not be permitted until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, no activity that amasses the public will be allowed to be carried out from midnight today (August 15), Head of NOCPCO General Shavendra Silva stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, restaurants can allow dine-in customers only up to 50 percent of their capacity, the NOCPCO further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the government requests the public to avoid gathering in crowded places as much as possible, General Silva said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana All weddings functions, irrespective of the venue, will not be allowed to be held from Tuesday (August 17) midnight, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated. The decision has been taken as a measure to control the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country. Accordingly, weddings, whether held at home [&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-117132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117132","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=117132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}