{"id":103575,"date":"2020-06-16T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103575"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:43:21","slug":"two-more-covid-19-patients-confirmed-cases-tally-hits-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/16\/two-more-covid-19-patients-confirmed-cases-tally-hits-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more COVID-19 patients confirmed; Cases tally hits 1,915"},"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 virus today (16), the Ministry of Health said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the total count of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 1,915.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, a total of 10 virus-positive cases were confirmed yesterday, the Department of Government Information said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These cases comprise 06 naval personnel at Kandakadu and Mihintale quarantine centres, 04 arrivals from Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four imported cases were identified among the 85 technicians from Iran who arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday to complete the Uma Oya Multi-Purpose Development Project. After undergoing the mandatory PCR test at the airport, they were directed to the quarantine centres by the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the number of recoveries in Sri Lanka now stands at 1,371.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit\u2019s tally reads that 533 active cases are currently under medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has confirmed 11 deaths due to the COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Two more individuals have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus today (16), the Ministry of Health said. Thereby, the total count of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 1,915. Accordingly, a total of 10 virus-positive cases were confirmed yesterday, the Department of Government Information said. These cases comprise 06 naval personnel [&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-103575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103575","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=103575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}