{"id":104721,"date":"2020-07-22T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104721"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:00:20","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-tally-hits-2731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/22\/sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-tally-hits-2731\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 cases tally hits 2,731"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka escalated to 2,731 this evening (22) as one more person tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest case is a close contact of a novel coronavirus patient linked to the Kandakadu cluster, the Department of Government Information said.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dbb \u0db8\u0db0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dba\u0dda \u0dbb\u0dd0\u0db3\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca \u0d85\u0dad\u0dbb \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd4\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpfEl4hhADY?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>According to the Epidemiology Unit\u2019s statistics, a total of 656 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care at hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the number of recoveries reported from the disease in the country moved up to 2,064 earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has thus far witnessed 11 deaths due to the virus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka escalated to 2,731 this evening (22) as one more person tested positive for the virus. The latest case is a close contact of a novel coronavirus patient linked to the Kandakadu cluster, the Department of Government Information said. According to the Epidemiology Unit\u2019s statistics, a total of [&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-104721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104721","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=104721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}