{"id":10986,"date":"2021-06-30T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10986"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:54:09","slug":"health-authorities-on-high-alert-on-spread-of-delta-variant-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/health-authorities-on-high-alert-on-spread-of-delta-variant-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Health authorities on high alert on spread of Delta variant in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of some individuals who were found with the Indian variant known as Delta recently in the country leaving fears among people, health authorities said they have taken all precautionary measures to prevent a further spread of the Indian variant and urged people to cooperate with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Director-General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath told media today they had received adequate data on spread of the Indian variant in the country to take all preventive measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are currently carrying out tests and surveillance to ascertain whether the variant has spread from the areas like Dematagoda where it was originally detected to other areas of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA negligent act done by one individual could jeopardize others around him or her resulting in major havoc in the country at large,\u201d Dr Herath underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, he stressed that there is no guarantee that the new variant could not spread in the country unless we strictly follow health practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe as health authorities do need the cooperation from people to face this critical situation; otherwise the whole country would be at stake,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of some individuals who were found with the Indian variant known&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10987,"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-10986","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\/10986","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=10986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10988,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10986\/revisions\/10988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}