{"id":8592,"date":"2020-04-24T04:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2020-04-24T04:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:54:51","slug":"thirty-navy-personnel-at-welisara-base-contract-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/thirty-navy-personnel-at-welisara-base-contract-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Navy personnel at Welisara base contract virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Thirty Navy personnel attached to the Sri Lanka Navy base in Welisara have contracted the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said that the camp has now been declared an isolation area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">He said that tests conducted on Navy personnel who had come in contact with a coronavirus infected sailor had confirmed that 30 of them were infected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">After the first sailor was confirmed to have contracted the virus, tests were carried out by sending all the sailors in his camp to be quarantined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">With tests confirming that 30 of them had contracted the virus all those attached to the camp and on leave have been asked to be tested for the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty Navy personnel attached to the Sri Lanka Navy base in Welisara have contracted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8593,"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-8592","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\/8592","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=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}