{"id":10278,"date":"2020-12-27T06:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2020-12-27T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T06:01:33","slug":"infected-youth-flees-home-after-testing-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/infected-youth-flees-home-after-testing-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Infected youth flees home after testing positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An infected youth has fled from his house after testing positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police said that the youth had been placed in home quarantine in Sapugaskanda after a PCR test was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 22-year-old youth had been requested to stay indoors until the results of the PCR test was obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result had confirmed that the youth was infected but he had fled from his house on hearing he was infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police later issued a notice seeking public assistance to locate the youth identified as Nimesh Madushanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Media Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said that the youth was in prison over a drugs related offence before he was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The identity of an infected person is usually not made public but since the youth had fled and posed a danger to the public the Police had published his image and details to locate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DIG Ajith Rohana urged the public to contact the nearest Police station or 119 if they have any information on the youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first time that infected people have fled out of fear of being placed in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infected youth has fled from his house after testing positive for the coronavirus.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10279,"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-10278","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\/10278","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=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}