{"id":10122,"date":"2020-11-18T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2020-11-18T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:05:35","slug":"no-decision-yet-to-enforce-another-lockdown-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/no-decision-yet-to-enforce-another-lockdown-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"No decision yet to enforce another lockdown in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government has not decided on enforcing another lockdown in Colombo due to the spread of the coronavirus, the National Operations Centre for the Prevention of COVID-19 (NOCPC) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head of the NOCPC, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva told Colombo Gazette that the current situation pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak is being reviewed on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said as of this evening (Tuesday), the Government has not come across the need to impose another lockdown on the entire Colombo District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Commander said that new coronavirus patients are only being detected from areas already under lockdown in the Colombo district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cases have not been reported from areas that are not under lockdown in the Colombo district at present, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva\u2019s comments come in response to Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake\u2019s call to impose a 3-week lockdown on the entire Colombo district to contain the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing reporters yesterday, Senanayake said that if the city is not brought under strict control the spread of the coronavirus cannot be contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colombo continues to be a hot spot for the coronavirus with a large number of infected persons being detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has not decided on enforcing another lockdown in Colombo due to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10123,"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-10122","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\/10122","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=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}