{"id":101204,"date":"2020-04-16T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101204"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:51:01","slug":"no-new-covid-19-positive-cases-68-coronavirus-recoveries-reported-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/16\/no-new-covid-19-positive-cases-68-coronavirus-recoveries-reported-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"No new COVID-19 positive cases -68 coronavirus recoveries reported in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Currently, 68 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection and discharged from the hospitals, says the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, 5 patients have completely recovered and discharged within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has reported no new COVID-19 positive cases as of 5 pm this evening (16), says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, there is no change to the total number of coronavirus patients found in Sri Lanka, which is 238.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 163 active cases are under medical care at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Welikanda Base Hospital, Colombo East Base Hospital and Iranawila Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The island has confirmed 7 fatalities from the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Currently, 68 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection and discharged from the hospitals, says the Department of Government Information. Thereby, 5 patients have completely recovered and discharged within the day. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has reported no new COVID-19 positive cases as of 5 pm this evening (16), says Director-General of Health Services [&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-101204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101204","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=101204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}