{"id":104502,"date":"2020-07-15T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104502"},"modified":"2020-07-15T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:57:32","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-sri-lanka-at-2671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/15\/coronavirus-cases-in-sri-lanka-at-2671\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka at 2,671"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another individual at the Kundasale quarantine center is confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19, stated the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient has been identified as a close contact of a coronavirus-positive at the Kandakadu rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka to 2,671 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More foreign arrivals push COVID-19 case tally to 2,670<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more foreign arrivals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, as per the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have been detected among recent returnees from United Arab Emirates and Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new cases, a total of 5 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has reported a total of 2,670 virus-positive cases so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 658 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number recoveries from the disease increased to 2,001 earlier today as 13 patients were discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has witnessed a total of 11 deaths due to COVID-19 thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another individual at the Kundasale quarantine center is confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19, stated the Health Ministry. The patient has been identified as a close contact of a coronavirus-positive at the Kandakadu rehabilitation center. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka to 2,671 cases. More foreign arrivals [&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-104502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104502","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=104502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}