{"id":10269,"date":"2020-12-24T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:32:43","slug":"passengers-crew-from-uk-flight-quarantined-in-special-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/passengers-crew-from-uk-flight-quarantined-in-special-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers, crew from UK flight quarantined in special hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passengers and crew from a flight which arrived from the UK have been quarantined in a special hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said that the SriLankan Airlines flight had already been deployed to the UK at the time a decision was taken to suspend flights from the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government had this week decided to suspend flights from the UK and transit passengers from the UK after a COVID-19 variant was detected in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SriLankan Airlines flight had been sent to the UK to bring back a number of Sri Lankans as part of the repatriation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe flight had already been deployed to the UK by the time President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had decided to suspend flights from the UK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Commander said that the SriLankan Airlines flight arrived in Sri Lanka last evening (Wednesday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that usually passengers and crew of repatriation flights are quarantined separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, in this case it had been decided to quarantine the passengers and crew together at a special hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers and crew from a flight which arrived from the UK have been quarantined&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10270,"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-10269","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\/10269","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=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}