{"id":86087,"date":"2020-03-20T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=86087"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T07:00:44","slug":"shane-warnes-distillery-stops-gin-production-make-hand-sanitiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/shane-warnes-distillery-stops-gin-production-make-hand-sanitiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Warne stops gin production and makes hand sanitisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian legend Shane Warne has halted production of gin at a distillery he co-owns to make medical-grade hand sanitiser for hospitals in these &#8220;challenging times&#8221; due to the coronavirus outbreak. The leg-spinner responded to Australia&#8217;s Prime Minister Scott Morrison&#8217;s plea for companies to help wherever they can during the crisis. &#8220;This is a challenging time for Australians and we all need to do what we can to help our healthcare system combat this disease and save lives,&#8221; Warne said on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy SevenZeroEight has the ability to make this shift and encourage others to do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So proud of all the team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/708gin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@708gin<\/a> as this is awesome ! I\u2019m so glad we could do this and help everyone ! Choose helping followers. Love you all \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xuNJoR1Pam\">pic.twitter.com\/xuNJoR1Pam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneWarne\/status\/1240506689603792896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So proud of all the team @708gin as this is awesome two prominent surgeons with an agreement in place to supply two Western Australian hospitals with hand sanitiser at cost.<\/p>\n<p>The company halted gin production earlier this week and is now pumping out 70-percent alcohol hand sanitiser indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a similar move by a distillery in Ireland, with hand sanitiser in short supply in many countries battling the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has so far seen more than 750 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with seven deaths from the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian legend Shane Warne has halted production of gin at a distillery he co-owns to make medical-grade hand sanitiser for hospitals in these &#8220;challenging times&#8221; due to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[88191,88507,92280],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20133300\/Shane-Warne.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86087"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86087"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=86087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->