{"id":139493,"date":"2024-01-05T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139493"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:29:42","slug":"sri-lanka-launches-dengue-eradication-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/05\/sri-lanka-launches-dengue-eradication-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka launches dengue eradication week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy People&#8217;s Daily Online<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Health Ministry has declared a countrywide dengue prevention week from Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, said the National Dengue Control Unit on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Colombo to announce the initiative, Sudath Samaraweera, the director of the National Dengue Control Unit, said mosquito breeding sites across the country will be targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An awareness campaign will also be held in conjunction, he said, noting that there has been a surge in dengue cases in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main focus of the dengue prevention campaign will be on 70 high-risk areas, and police, health officials and volunteers will take part in the campaign, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, 88,398 Dengue cases were reported in Sri Lanka with 57 deaths, according to the National Dengue Control Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy People&#8217;s Daily Online COLOMBO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Health Ministry has declared a countrywide dengue prevention week from Jan. 7 to Jan. 13, said the National Dengue Control Unit on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Colombo to announce the initiative, Sudath Samaraweera, the director of the National Dengue Control Unit, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139493","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=139493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}