{"id":100710,"date":"2020-04-03T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100710"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:53:27","slug":"three-more-covid-19-cases-raise-total-to-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/03\/three-more-covid-19-cases-raise-total-to-159\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more COVID-19 cases raise total to 159"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 cases tally in Sri Lanka has risen to 159 as three more patients tested positive for the virus at of 10.10 pm today (03).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, a total of 8 coronavirus patients were found in the country during the course of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 131 patients are currently under medical care while 24 patients were discharged after making complete recoveries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four COVID-19 patients have succumbed to the deadly virus in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">COVID-19: Total positive cases in Sri Lanka surge to 156<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Four more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as of 9.00 pm today (03), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 128 patients are currently under medical care while 24 patients were discharged after recovering completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four COVID-19 patients have succumbed to the deadly virus in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The COVID-19 cases tally in Sri Lanka has risen to 159 as three more patients tested positive for the virus at of 10.10 pm today (03). Accordingly, a total of 8 coronavirus patients were found in the country during the course of the day. The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 131 patients [&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-100710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100710","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=100710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}