{"id":100128,"date":"2020-03-19T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100128"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:16:29","slug":"59-confirmed-cases-of-coronavirus-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/19\/59-confirmed-cases-of-coronavirus-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"59 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE (4.22 p.m.) &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Three more Coronavirus patients have been identified today bringing the total confirmed cases in Sri Lanka to 59.<br>&nbsp;<br>Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said a small child, a 64-year-old patient from Colombo North Teaching Hospital and 23-year-old youth from IDH Hospital have tested positive for the virus.&nbsp;<\/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=\"59 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Sri Lanka (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ckSV2Zv493s?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\n\n\n<p>He revealed this while responding to a question during the press breifing of the National Operation Center for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Four more patients have tested positive for Coronavirus bringing the total of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka to 56, the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that as of yesterday (18) a total of 52 patients had been identified and that four more confirmed cases were reported so far today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a special press briefing, the Director General said that two of the new patients are the daughter and wife of a previous patient while the other two are from quarantine centers and they had arrived in the country from Italy recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All confirmed patients are receiving treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 243 suspected Covid-19 patients are currently being treated at selected hospitals in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the confirmed cases are males (81%) while 45.2% percent of the patients are of the ages between 41 to 50 years, according to a situation report of the Epidemiology Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE (4.22 p.m.) &#8211;&nbsp;Three more Coronavirus patients have been identified today bringing the total confirmed cases in Sri Lanka to 59.&nbsp;Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said a small child, a 64-year-old patient from Colombo North Teaching Hospital and 23-year-old youth from IDH Hospital have tested positive for the virus.&nbsp; He [&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-100128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100128","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=100128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}