{"id":102653,"date":"2020-05-21T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102653"},"modified":"2020-05-21T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T22:42:34","slug":"two-navymen-test-positive-for-covid-19-total-at-1047","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/21\/two-navymen-test-positive-for-covid-19-total-at-1047\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Navymen test positive for COVID-19; total at 1,047"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two more individuals have tested positive for the COVID-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The identified patients are Sri Lanka Navy personnel, stated the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 4 Navy personnel are confirmed to have contracted the virus within today (21). The total number of coronavirus cases identified within the day is 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, a total of 1,047 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 604 of these coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals so far as they returned to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says that 434 active cases are currently under medical care at selected hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s death toll due to coronavirus currently stands at 09.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fifteen returnees test positive for COVID-19 as tally leaps to 1,045<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as of 6.00 pm today (21), says the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s total count of coronavirus infections thereby reached 1,045.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These new positive cases have been identified as returnees from Dubai who were undergoing mandatory quarantine procedure at the facility in Giragama, the Department of Government Information said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, two other coronavirus patients were reported earlier today. They were confirmed to be navy men who were being quarantined at the facility in Mullaitivu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 604 of these coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals so far as they returned to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says that 432 active cases are currently under medical care at selected hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s death toll due to coronavirus currently stands at 09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Two more individuals have tested positive for the COVID-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed a short while ago. The identified patients are Sri Lanka Navy personnel, stated the Ministry. Accordingly, 4 Navy personnel are confirmed to have contracted the virus within today (21). The total number of coronavirus cases identified within the day [&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-102653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102653","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=102653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}