{"id":104652,"date":"2020-07-20T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104652"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:20:59","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-total-climbs-to-2730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/20\/sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-total-climbs-to-2730\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 cases total climbs to 2,730"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the country so far has increased to 2,730 following the detection of two more cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two persons who had returned from Saudi Arabia and were in quarantine had tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly 678 patients infected with Covid-19 are currently being treated at hospitals while the toal number of recoveries stands at 2,041.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Covid-19 tally rises to 2,728 with four more cases<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Four new cases of novel coronavirus have been detected bringing the total number of confirmed cases reported in Sri Lanka to 2,728.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four new cases include 03 returnees from Saudi Arabia, who were in quarantine, and a resident of Rajanganaya, who is a close contact of a Covid-19 positive patient from the Kandakadu rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly a total of 675 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care while the total number of recoveries has climbed to 2,041.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the country so far has increased to 2,730 following the detection of two more cases of Covid-19. Two persons who had returned from Saudi Arabia and were in quarantine had tested positive for the virus. Accordingly 678 patients infected with Covid-19 are currently being treated [&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-104652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104652","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=104652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}