{"id":99960,"date":"2020-03-15T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99960"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:19:15","slug":"6-month-prison-sentence-for-concealing-coronavirus-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/15\/6-month-prison-sentence-for-concealing-coronavirus-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"6-month prison sentence for concealing coronavirus infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Individuals who conceal the fact that they have contracted COVID-19 will be sentenced to six months in prison, stated the Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DIG Ajith Rohana mentioned this at a special press conference held earlier this afternoon (15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that steps will be take enabling arrest of such individuals without a warrant.<\/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 \u0dc0\u0ddb\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dba \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0dc5\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0d87\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db6\u0dc0 \u0dc0\u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dc5\u0ddc\u0dad\u0dca \u0db8\u0dcf\u0dc3 06\u0d9a \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0daf\u0dac\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/36UTsyMJ4sI?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>Further, the law will be strictly enforced against those who spread false rumors on the coronavirus through social media, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 23 individuals have been arrested over the spread of such false information on the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While, the police would not act on private parties, in the event of a wedding, health instructions are to be strictly followed, Rohana added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that 7 officers who are informed on the quarantine process have been deployed to each police station in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police hotline 119 is available for the general public to inform in case of suspicion of having contracted the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Individuals who conceal the fact that they have contracted COVID-19 will be sentenced to six months in prison, stated the Police. DIG Ajith Rohana mentioned this at a special press conference held earlier this afternoon (15). He added that steps will be take enabling arrest of such individuals without a warrant. Further, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99960","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=99960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}