{"id":100268,"date":"2020-03-23T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100268"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:55:11","slug":"three-more-covid-19-positive-patients-raise-total-to-97-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/23\/three-more-covid-19-positive-patients-raise-total-to-97-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more COVID-19 positive patients raise total to 97 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka edges close to 100 as 3 more patients have been tested positive with the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This raises the total number of COVID-19 positive cases to 97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi speaking at 360 program on TV Derana, stated that 10 patients have confirmed of having contracted the virus, today (23) alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All patients who were tested positive for the coronavirus are currently receiving treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the first Sri Lankan to have contracted the virus was discharged from IDH after a complete recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka edges close to 100 as 3 more patients have been tested positive with the virus. This raises the total number of COVID-19 positive cases to 97. Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi speaking at 360 program on TV Derana, stated that 10 patients have confirmed of [&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-100268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100268","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=100268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}