{"id":105688,"date":"2020-08-20T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105688"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:08:02","slug":"arrivals-from-chennai-push-covid-19-cases-to-2918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/20\/arrivals-from-chennai-push-covid-19-cases-to-2918\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrivals from Chennai push COVID-19 cases to 2,918"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sixteen individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 today (20), raising Sri Lanka\u2019s infections tally to 2,918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Government Information said the latest cases are arrivals from Chennai, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, recoveries from COVID-19 escalated to 2,765 earlier today as five more patients returned to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit says only 142 active novel coronavirus cases are currently under medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has thus far witnessed 11 deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sixteen individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 today (20), raising Sri Lanka\u2019s infections tally to 2,918. The Department of Government Information said the latest cases are arrivals from Chennai, India. In the meantime, recoveries from COVID-19 escalated to 2,765 earlier today as five more patients returned to health. The Epidemiology Unit says only [&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-105688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105688","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=105688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}