{"id":10045,"date":"2020-11-05T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:14:51","slug":"the-country-will-not-be-locked-down-at-all-president-stresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/the-country-will-not-be-locked-down-at-all-president-stresses\/","title":{"rendered":"The country will not be locked-down at all, President stresses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka\u2019s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today stressed that the entire country will not be locked-down at all due to the spreading of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa emphasized that it is important to keep the country open as well as to control the spread of COVID-19 virus in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Speaking at a discussion held Wednesday regarding the control of the COVID-19 virus in the country, the President said that when making decisions regarding the country, correct decisions should be taken focusing on the whole process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone including President, ministers, health staff and people must understand the status of economy of the people who lives on daily wages and businesses,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf people put on the mask, wash their hands properly, and follow the correct procedures, the country can be run without any problems. A country can be run if the people pay attention. Those who get a monthly salary do not care if the country closes. But for the self-employed and business people, if it is closed for 10 days, it will probably take a year to cover the loss. We cannot think only about one side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe cannot afford to close down the country anticipating a cure for COVID-19 would be discovered,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today stressed that the entire country will not be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}