{"id":101011,"date":"2020-04-11T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101011"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:26:18","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-climb-to-198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/11\/covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-climb-to-198\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka climb to 198"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another patient has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) today bringing the country\u2019s infections tally to 198, says the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Epidemiology Unit, 137 coronavirus patients are currently under medical care.<\/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=\"\u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda 198 \u0dc0\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u200d\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dad\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVulzDx4Y6Q?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>Out of the total number of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka, 54 patients have recovered completely while 7 persons succumbed to the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadly virus has so far claimed more than 100,000 lives and infected over 1.6 million population worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another patient has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) today bringing the country\u2019s infections tally to 198, says the Ministry of Health. According to the Epidemiology Unit, 137 coronavirus patients are currently under medical care. Out of the total number of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka, 54 patients have recovered completely while [&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-101011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101011","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=101011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}