{"id":102539,"date":"2020-05-19T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102539"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:22:23","slug":"total-number-of-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-1023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/19\/total-number-of-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-1023\/","title":{"rendered":"Total number of Covid-19 cases climbs to 1,023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry confirmed that two more patients have tested positive for COVID-19 increasing the total number of cases reported in the country to 1,023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly 31 new cases have been confirmed so far within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says that 445 active cases are currently under medical care while the number of recoveries has increased to 569.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka is 09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry confirmed that two more patients have tested positive for COVID-19 increasing the total number of cases reported in the country to 1,023. Accordingly 31 new cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says that 445 active cases are currently under medical [&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-102539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102539","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=102539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}