{"id":10098,"date":"2020-11-12T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:52:09","slug":"over-30000-coronavirus-carriers-in-the-city-of-colombo-colombo-chief-medical-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/over-30000-coronavirus-carriers-in-the-city-of-colombo-colombo-chief-medical-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30,000 coronavirus carriers in the city of Colombo &#8211; Colombo Chief Medical Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There may be more than 30,000 people infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus in the city of Colombo, says Colombo Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ruwan Wijemuni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Wijemuni told media that in PCR tests conducted on 300 randomly selected people in the city, 5 percent of them were found to be infected and accordingly 5 percent of the 600,000 people in the city of Colombo are suspected to be infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that 80 percent of infected people do not show any symptoms but they are carriers of the disease and that only 5 percent of infected people show symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Wijemuni pointed out that only 0.4 percent of the people who show these symptoms die due to the seriousness of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the people living in Colombo should be especially careful as the disease can be present in anyone&#8217;s body without showing any symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Wijemuni comparing the current situation of patients to a top of an iceberg in the ocean said that it should not be forgotten that a large part of the iceberg may not be visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be more than 30,000 people infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10099,"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-10098","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\/10098","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=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}