{"id":117277,"date":"2021-08-19T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117277"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:05:39","slug":"malwathu-asgiri-chief-prelates-urge-president-to-lockdown-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/19\/malwathu-asgiri-chief-prelates-urge-president-to-lockdown-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Malwathu-Asgiri Chief Prelates urge President to lockdown country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Chief Prelates of the Malwathu-Asgiri Sects have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requesting a country-wide lock for a period of one week.<\/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=\"\u0dbb\u0da7 \u0d85\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc5\u0dd4 \u0daf\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1... \u0db8\u0dc4 \u0db1\u0dcf\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4  \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2 \u0daf\u0dc4\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d89\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dba\u0dd2...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGK2qM-gNE0?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>The Chief Prelates pointed out that the entire country is facing a catastrophe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter also noted that the health sectors have warned of the severity of the new mutant virus strains and the difficulty in controlling them due to their rapid spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the World Health Organization has also warned of a major health crisis in Sri Lanka in the coming months, the letter reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, Chief Prelate of Malwathu Sect Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangalabhidhana Thero and Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Sect Ven. Warakagoda Dhammasiddhi Sri Pagnananda Thero have urged the President to impose a lockdown on the country for at least a period of a week on the advice and recommendations of health experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Theros appealed to the President to control the spread of the disease by providing the necessary facilities to the people during the lockdown and protect lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Chief Prelates of the Malwathu-Asgiri Sects have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requesting a country-wide lock for a period of one week. The Chief Prelates pointed out that the entire country is facing a catastrophe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease. The letter also noted that the health sectors have warned [&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-117277","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\/117277","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=117277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}