{"id":10272,"date":"2020-12-24T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:36:41","slug":"phis-call-for-restrictions-to-limit-travels-between-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/phis-call-for-restrictions-to-limit-travels-between-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"PHIs call for restrictions to limit travels between districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) Union of Sri Lanka has urged the authorities to impose restrictions preventing travels out of district borders during the festive season, as Covid-19 infections continue to sweep across the Western Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to media in Colombo, the union\u2019s chairman Mr. Upul Rohana said large numbers of positive cases are confirmed within the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar situations are reported in Kalutara and Gampaha districts as well, he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three high-risk groups for novel coronavirus have been observed, Mr Rohana said;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. People employed in the Western province and are returning to their homes outside the Western Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. People who enter the Western Province to make purchases, and fail to adhere to health regulations and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. People living in areas that were isolate once but now traveling to other parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) Union of Sri Lanka has urged the authorities to impose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10273,"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-10272","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\/10272","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=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}