{"id":104602,"date":"2020-07-18T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104602"},"modified":"2020-07-18T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:04:39","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-infections-rise-to-2703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/18\/sri-lankas-covid-19-infections-rise-to-2703\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 infections rise to 2,703"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another fresh case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, increasing the total number of patients to 2,703.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This patient, who is from Lankapura area, has been identified as a close associate of the virus-infected person linked to the Kandakadu COVID-19 cluster.<\/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=\"\u0d8b\/\u0db4\u0dd9\u0dc5 \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0dc1\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dda \u0db1\u0dc0 \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1 \u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0dc3\u0db3\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dcf...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEiR4mhQuoY?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>Further, four close contacts of a coronavirus patient linked to the same cluster and an arrival from the Philippines also tested positive earlier today (11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, 06 positive cases of COVID-19 have been detected so far within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit says 669 patients infected with the virus are currently being treated at hospitals while 2,023 patients returned to health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another fresh case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, increasing the total number of patients to 2,703. This patient, who is from Lankapura area, has been identified as a close associate of the virus-infected person linked to the Kandakadu COVID-19 cluster. Further, four close contacts of a coronavirus patient linked to [&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-104602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104602","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=104602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}