{"id":68261,"date":"2020-03-29T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=68261"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T03:31:00","slug":"sri-lankas-first-coronavirus-victims-body-cremated-at-kotikawatte-crematorium-under-supervision-of-judicial-medical-officer-and-public-health-inspectors-in-accordance-with-international-health-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=68261","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s First Coronavirus Victim&#8217;s Body Cremated at Kotikawatte Crematorium Under Supervision of  Judicial Medical Officer and Public Health Inspectors in Accordance with International Health Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nThe body of Sri Lanka\u2019s first coronavirus victim, Elangampedige Dharmasiri Janananda, was cremated at the Kotikawatta crematorium yesterday afternoon. The 60-year-old man was a resident of Marawila. He was undergoing treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, at the time of his death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Director General of Health Services, Anil Jasinghe, said that they had adhered to international quarantine standards as regards Janananda\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The funeral took place under the supervision of a Judicial Medical Officer and Public Health Inspectors,&#8221; he said, adding that only the relatives of the deceased had been allowed to view his body from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased had undergone a kidney transplant operation and was also suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton68261\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D68261&amp;text=Sri%20Lanka%26%238217%3Bs%20First%20Coronavirus%20Victim%26%238217%3Bs%20Body%20Cremated%20at%20Kotikawatte%20Crematorium%20Under%20Supervision...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of Sri Lanka\u2019s first coronavirus victim, Elangampedige Dharmasiri Janananda, was cremated at the Kotikawatta crematorium yesterday afternoon. The 60-year-old man was a resident of Marawila. He was undergoing treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, at the time of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68262,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68261\/revisions\/68262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}