{"id":117267,"date":"2021-08-19T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117267"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:50:32","slug":"plans-to-impose-islandwide-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/19\/plans-to-impose-islandwide-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to impose islandwide lockdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> It is reported that there are plans to impose an islandwide complete lockdown to curb the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is being pressured by various parties including the Chief Prelates of the\u00a0Asgiriya and Malwaththa Chapters to impose a lockdown for a short period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 25 cities on the island have voluntarily imposed lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, sources close to the Presidential Secretariat stated that the President is most likely to address the nation tomorrow (20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sources further stated that the President is scheduled to make a statement on how the lockdown will be imposed in the country according to the quarantine law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a six-hour curfew is in effect in the country every day from 10:00 p.m. to 04:00 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that there are plans to impose an islandwide complete lockdown to curb the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. The government is being pressured by various parties including the Chief Prelates of the\u00a0Asgiriya and Malwaththa Chapters to impose a lockdown for a short period of time. More than 25 cities on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117267","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=117267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}