{"id":99918,"date":"2020-03-14T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99918"},"modified":"2020-03-14T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:40:34","slug":"mass-gatherings-not-allowed-for-two-weeks-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/14\/mass-gatherings-not-allowed-for-two-weeks-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass gatherings not allowed for two weeks \u2013 Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Permission will not be granted for mass gatherings for two weeks due to the risks of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country, says the Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She made this announcement during a special media briefing at the Department of Government Information today (14).<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dab\u0db1 7 \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d89\u0dc4\u0dc5\u0da7\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIR586hKF28?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>Minister Wanniarachchi stated that this decision was taken as a precautionary measure since the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) in Sri Lanka has now risen to a total of seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She requested the public to avoid places where a large number of people gather and to postpone private events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any individuals, who arrive in the island from any country other than the ones on which a travel ban imposed yesterday, are urged to self-quarantine at their respective residences, she further stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus far, the confirmed cases of coronavirus in Sri Lanka were identified as individuals who arrived from foreign countries, the health minister noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Permission will not be granted for mass gatherings for two weeks due to the risks of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country, says the Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi. She made this announcement during a special media briefing at the Department of Government Information today (14). Minister Wanniarachchi stated that this decision was taken [&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-99918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99918","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=99918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}