{"id":118228,"date":"2021-09-17T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118228"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T20:24:23","slug":"quarantine-curfew-extended-until-oct-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/17\/quarantine-curfew-extended-until-oct-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine curfew extended until Oct. 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The quarantine curfew currently in effect across the island has been extended until 4.00 a.m. on October 01 (Friday), the President\u2019s Spokesman said.&nbsp;<\/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=\"\u0db1\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db1 \u0d87\u0db3\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dba\u0dc5\u0dd2 \u0daf\u0dd3\u0dbb\u0dca\u0d9d \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdITTi6AFtU?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>In a twitter message, he said that the decision was taken during the meeting of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Control chaired by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was also confirmed by Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who tweeted that \u2018conditional lockdown\u2019 will continue until October 01.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, government essential services impacting the economy will be allowed to function, the minister said, adding that conditions are to be notified soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Minister also said that as per President Rajapaksa, he will be consulting with Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa to decide which government institutions will be kept open as essential services that contribute to the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged the public to adhere to the health regulations and to use this time to get vaccinated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ten-day island-wide quarantine curfew was initially imposed on August 20, however the restrictions were further extended on several occasions in a bid to mitigate the spread of the virus and to ramp up the vaccination process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The quarantine curfew currently in effect across the island has been extended until 4.00 a.m. on October 01 (Friday), the President\u2019s Spokesman said.&nbsp; In a twitter message, he said that the decision was taken during the meeting of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Control chaired by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (17). This [&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-118228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118228","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=118228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}