{"id":102482,"date":"2020-05-18T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102482"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:45:59","slug":"count-of-coronavirus-infections-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/18\/count-of-coronavirus-infections-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-991\/","title":{"rendered":"Count of coronavirus infections in Sri Lanka moves to 991"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Five more cases of COVID-19 infections have been reported a short while ago, confirmed the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new cases, the count of COVID-19 cases identified today (18) rises to 10. Previously, 5 Navy personnel were reported to have contracted the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby the total count of novel coronavirus cases reported in Sri Lanka has moved to 991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of recoveries in the country rose to 559 earlier today while a total of 418 active cases are currently under medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of fatalities due to the virus in Sri Lanka is 09.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Health Ministry, around 1,254 PCR tests were carried out yesterday and 21 new cases were identified within yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Five more cases of COVID-19 infections have been reported a short while ago, confirmed the Ministry of Health. With the new cases, the count of COVID-19 cases identified today (18) rises to 10. Previously, 5 Navy personnel were reported to have contracted the disease. Thereby the total count of novel coronavirus cases reported [&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-102482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102482","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=102482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}