{"id":10095,"date":"2020-11-12T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:50:25","slug":"burying-covid-19-victims-could-lead-to-contamination-of-waterways-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/burying-covid-19-victims-could-lead-to-contamination-of-waterways-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying COVID-19 victims could lead to contamination of waterways: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a risk of COVID-19 virus contaminating water within the soil if those who succumb to the disease are buried, an expert said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Menthika Withanage said there is a risk element in this regard though there is no scientific evidence to prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cResearch has revealed that COVID-19 virus could survive even in streams and other waterways,\u201d Professor Withanage said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said the Ministry of Health has appointed a special committee to look into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCOVID-19 virus is still new to the world as it was discovered only around ten months ago,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a risk of COVID-19 virus contaminating water within the soil if those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10096,"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-10095","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\/10095","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=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}