{"id":101234,"date":"2020-04-17T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101234"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:17:08","slug":"two-new-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-total-at-244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/17\/two-new-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-total-at-244\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka; Total at 244"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two more persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of 10.00 pm today (17) bringing Sri Lanka\u2019s confirmed cases tally to 244.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that a total of 6 coronavirus cases were confirmed during the course of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, nine COVID-19 patients have returned to health today and the total number of recoveries in the country jumped to 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 160 active cases are under medical care at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Welikanda Base Hospital, Colombo East Base Hospital and Iranawila Hospital, the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has so far confirmed 7 fatalities from the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Two more persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of 10.00 pm today (17) bringing Sri Lanka\u2019s confirmed cases tally to 244. The Health Ministry says that a total of 6 coronavirus cases were confirmed during the course of the day. In the meantime, nine COVID-19 patients have returned to health [&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-101234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101234","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=101234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}