{"id":102255,"date":"2020-05-13T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102255"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:36:25","slug":"covid-19-two-more-patients-bring-total-count-to-891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/13\/covid-19-two-more-patients-bring-total-count-to-891\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Two more patients bring total count to 891"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two more persons have tested positive the novel coronavirus raising the tally of total cases in the country, stated Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two new Covid-19 positive patients are navy personnel, according to the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the total number of cases reported from Sri Lanka stands at 891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 500 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the island, as per the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with seven new recoveries reported today (13), the count of recoveries recorded in the country is at 382.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine of the coronavirus patients reported from the country have succumbed to the disease so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Two more persons have tested positive the novel coronavirus raising the tally of total cases in the country, stated Ministry of Health. The two new Covid-19 positive patients are navy personnel, according to the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Accordingly, the total number of cases reported from Sri Lanka [&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-102255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255","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=102255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}