{"id":104849,"date":"2020-07-25T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104849"},"modified":"2020-07-25T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T22:13:27","slug":"one-01-more-person-confirmed-for-covid-19-sl-country-total-increases-to-2769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/25\/one-01-more-person-confirmed-for-covid-19-sl-country-total-increases-to-2769\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka hit 2,769"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka reached 2,769 as another person tested positive for the virus today (25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Government Information said the latest positive case is an arrival from Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, a total of 05 fresh cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The other 04 cases are arrivals from Chennai, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Epidemiology Unit\u2019s statistics, a total of 655 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 from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 2,103 earlier today after 09 patients were discharged from hospitals upon returning to health.<\/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 Ada Derana Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka reached 2,769 as another person tested positive for the virus today (25). The Department of Government Information said the latest positive case is an arrival from Belarus. Thereby, a total of 05 fresh cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The other 04 [&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-104849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104849","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=104849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}