{"id":13906,"date":"2021-04-30T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2021-04-30T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:10:11","slug":"country-is-in-dire-straits-urgent-need-to-lock-down-or-impose-travel-restrictions-phi-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13906","title":{"rendered":"Country is in dire straits\u2026 Urgent need to lock down or impose travel restrictions &#8211; PHI Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Public Health Inspectors Association says the authorities have not yet heeded their union&#8217;s call for a complete lockdown or travel restrictions as the country is in a precarious situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Upul Rohana, President of the Sri Lanka Public Health Inspectors Association, says that his association will continue to make this request.<br \/>Mr Upul Rohana said that they had made several requests to the President and the Ministry of Health to take immediate action to prevent a dangerous situation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that as the number of patients infected with the covid-19 virus was increasing day by day, there were further delays in transporting patients to treatment centers.<br \/>He points out that patients have to stay at home for longer periods due to delays in finding hospitals and this is likely to increase the number of deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasizes that ground operations are not enough to prevent the spread of covid.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13906' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13906&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13906' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13906' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13906' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13906'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13906' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13906 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Health Inspectors Association says the authorities have not yet heeded their union&#8217;s call for a complete lockdown or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}