{"id":99974,"date":"2020-03-15T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99974"},"modified":"2020-03-15T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:47:06","slug":"sri-lankas-economy-has-taken-severe-blow-amid-coronavirus-scare-president-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/15\/sri-lankas-economy-has-taken-severe-blow-amid-coronavirus-scare-president-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s economy has taken severe blow amid coronavirus scare: President Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy ANI<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\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=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s economy has taken severe blow amid coronavirus scare: President Rajapaksa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C53D4ezy8ds?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>\n\nNew Delhi, Mar 15(ANI): While attending a video conference of all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries amid Coronavirus scare, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said, Our economy has taken serious blow, particularly tourism sector which was just recovering after last years&#8217; terrorist attack. I strongly recommend SAARC leaders to formulate mechanism to assist our economies to tide over difficult period.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy ANI New Delhi, Mar 15(ANI): While attending a video conference of all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries amid Coronavirus scare, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said, Our economy has taken serious blow, particularly tourism sector which was just recovering after last years&#8217; terrorist attack. I strongly recommend SAARC leaders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99974","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=99974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}