{"id":10877,"date":"2021-06-04T05:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2021-06-04T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:24:27","slug":"sri-lankas-vaccination-programme-flawed-vaccinating-hotspots-futile-slma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-vaccination-programme-flawed-vaccinating-hotspots-futile-slma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s vaccination programme flawed, vaccinating hotspots futile: SLMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current vaccination strategy is flawed and is in need of urgent review, with priority given for the elderly patients,the Sri Lanka Medical Association said.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s premier professional medical body in a letter to the President said that there was no apparent benefit of vaccinating disease hot-spots with high mobility of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn such a circumstance, particularly troubled by continuous short supply of vaccines, we emphasize the need for an efficient vaccine strategy which targets high-risk groups,\u201d the premier professional medical organisation headed by Dr.\u00a0Padma Gunaratne said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will effectively achieve maximum control and avoid the necessity for repeated lock-downs,\u201d they further said.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current vaccination strategy is flawed and is in need of urgent review, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","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=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}