{"id":100571,"date":"2020-03-31T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100571"},"modified":"2020-03-31T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:32:56","slug":"sri-lanka-records-an-alarming-rise-in-covid-19-patients-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/31\/sri-lanka-records-an-alarming-rise-in-covid-19-patients-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records an alarming rise in COVID-19 patients today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, 31st March (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan Health Ministry has confirmed that 20 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the highest surge in COVID-19 cases the country has recorded. The total now stands at 142 positive cases in the Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovering completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Colombo, 31st March (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan Health Ministry has confirmed that 20 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 today. This was the highest surge in COVID-19 cases the country has recorded. The total now stands at 142 positive cases in the Island. 17 patients have been discharged from hospitals after [&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-100571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100571","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=100571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}