{"id":118181,"date":"2021-09-16T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118181"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:55:24","slug":"sri-lankans-returning-from-abroad-to-be-sent-home-with-expedited-pcr-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/16\/sri-lankans-returning-from-abroad-to-be-sent-home-with-expedited-pcr-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans returning from abroad to be sent home with expedited PCR tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankans returning to the country from abroad will be sent home without delay following expedited PCR tests, the government has decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been taken at a meeting held at the Ministry of Health today (September 16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new laboratory facilities at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), it is possible to release PCR test results within just hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, it is expected to send arriving Sri Lankans to their homes without a hotel quarantine period, if their test results come out negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankans returning to the country from abroad will be sent home without delay following expedited PCR tests, the government has decided. The decision has been taken at a meeting held at the Ministry of Health today (September 16). With the new laboratory facilities at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), it is possible [&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-118181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118181","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=118181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}