{"id":10322,"date":"2021-01-11T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10322"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:18:01","slug":"vasudeva-nanayakkara-tests-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/vasudeva-nanayakkara-tests-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasudeva Nanayakkara tests COVID-19 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara has tested positive for the COVID-19 infection, sources told Ada Derana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accordingly, 03 members of the parliament have tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara who was the first to be diagnosed with the virus infection is currently receiving treatment at a treatment center in Hikkaduwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was confirmed yesterday that Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem too had contracted the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Prime Minister\u2019s Coordinating Secretary for Political Affairs, Kumarasiri Hettige was also confirmed to be COVID-19 positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, 21 MP and several staff members at the parliament have been identified as contacts of MP Hakeem and Kumarasiri Hettige.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara has tested positive for the COVID-19 infection, sources told Ada Derana.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10323,"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-10322","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\/10322","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=10322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}