{"id":104419,"date":"2020-07-12T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104419"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:51:45","slug":"coronavirus-count-in-sri-lanka-climbs-to-2612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/12\/coronavirus-count-in-sri-lanka-climbs-to-2612\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus count in Sri Lanka climbs to 2,612"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Five arrivals from Belarus have tested positive for COVID-19 raising the total number of cases reported in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby the tally of virus-positive cases in Sri Lanka is now at 2,612, stated the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d89\u0dc4\u0dc5 \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dbb...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSPoDR_lltU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 620 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care, as per a tally of the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the total figure of recoveries in Sri Lanka has risen to 1,981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has confirmed 11 deaths due to the virus infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Five arrivals from Belarus have tested positive for COVID-19 raising the total number of cases reported in the country. Thereby the tally of virus-positive cases in Sri Lanka is now at 2,612, stated the Department of Government Information. A total of 620 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104419","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=104419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}