{"id":27055,"date":"2021-01-19T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/19\/sri-lankan-holy-mans-miracle-potion-for-covid-turns-sour"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T11:24:31","slug":"sri-lankan-holy-mans-miracle-potion-for-covid-turns-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27055","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan holy man\u2019s \u2018miracle\u2019 potion for Covid turns sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister who publicly drank syrup touted as coronavirus cure tests positive <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A self-styled Sri Lankan holy man\u2019s supposed miracle potion to prevent Covid-19 has turned sour after a minister who publicly drank it was taken to hospital with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands defied public gathering restrictions to swamp a village in central Sri Lanka last month to get the syrup made by Dhammika Bandara.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/19\/sri-lankan-holy-mans-miracle-potion-for-covid-turns-sour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister who publicly drank syrup touted as coronavirus cure tests positive Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA self-styled Sri Lankan holy man\u2019s supposed miracle potion to prevent Covid-19 has turned sour after a minister who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[918,1066,914,512,916,299,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions\/27056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}