{"id":100048,"date":"2020-03-17T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100048"},"modified":"2020-03-17T07:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:26:46","slug":"number-of-coronavirus-patients-in-sri-lanka-surge-to-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/17\/number-of-coronavirus-patients-in-sri-lanka-surge-to-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of coronavirus patients in Sri Lanka surge to 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ada Derana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Nine more persons have tested positive for coronavirus in Sri Lanka, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of Covid-19 has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka now stands at 43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier the number of COVID-19 positive cases in Sri Lanka has climbed to 34, says Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She mentioned this at a special media briefing by the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe stated one of the 6 new patients is the wife of a tour guide who tested positive previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the patients who been infected with the virus, 2 persons had returned to the country from the United Kingdom, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another 2 patients have been reported from Kelaniya and Marawila areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a person who had returned from Qatar had also been tested positive while residing in Udugampola.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0da7 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0ddb\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dba \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0d82\u0d9b\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dc0 34\u0d9a\u0dca \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d89\u0dc4\u0dc5\u0da7\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6RSuCw4oOGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ada Derana Nine more persons have tested positive for coronavirus in Sri Lanka, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of Covid-19 has announced. Accordingly, the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka now stands at 43. Earlier the number of COVID-19 positive cases in Sri Lanka has climbed to 34, says Minister of Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}