{"id":103619,"date":"2020-06-17T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103619"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:09:52","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-sri-lanka-climb-to-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/17\/coronavirus-cases-in-sri-lanka-climb-to-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka climb to 1,923"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two more individuals are confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus, hiking the total number of cases recorded in the country to 1,923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, a total of 08 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported within the day so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously today (17), 05 arrivals from Chennai and 01 Sri Lanka Navy personnel were tested positive for the virus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 515 active cases are receiving treatment under medical care at selected hospitals, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 26 patients being discharged today (17), the number of recoveries in the country now stands at 1,397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has witnessed 11 deaths from the virus so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Two more individuals are confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus, hiking the total number of cases recorded in the country to 1,923. Accordingly, a total of 08 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported within the day so far. Previously today (17), 05 arrivals from Chennai and 01 Sri Lanka Navy personnel were [&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-103619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103619","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=103619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}