{"id":104619,"date":"2020-07-19T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104619"},"modified":"2020-07-19T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:14:36","slug":"covid-19-more-returnees-from-saudi-arabia-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/19\/covid-19-more-returnees-from-saudi-arabia-test-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: More returnees from Saudi Arabia test positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Nine individuals who arrived from overseas have been confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases have been detected amongst individuals who recently arrived from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, a total of 20 COVID-19 cases have been detected within today (19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the count of coronavirus cases reported in the country has moved to 2,725 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 678 active cases among them are under medical care at selected hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with 12 more patients being discharged today upon regaining health, the tally of recoveries in the country has moved to 2,035 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has witnessed 11 deaths from the virus thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Four more from Kandakadu rehab center test coronavirus-positive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Four more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 hiking the tally of virus-positive cases in Sri Lanka to 2,715 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest cases are detected among patients of the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center who were under quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new cases, 11 coronavirus cases have been reported in the country within the day so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 669 active cases among them are under medical care at selected hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More foreign arrivals add to COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Three recent arrivals from Qatar are confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of seven coronavirus-positive cases have been identified from the country within the so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the count of COVID-19 cases detected in Sri Lanka has risen to 2,711.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Nine individuals who arrived from overseas have been confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information. The new cases have been detected amongst individuals who recently arrived from Saudi Arabia. So far, a total of 20 COVID-19 cases have been detected within today (19). Thereby, the count of coronavirus [&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-104619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104619","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=104619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}