{"id":107647,"date":"2020-10-16T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107647"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:46:28","slug":"minuwangoda-covid-19-cluster-expands-with-49-fresh-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/16\/minuwangoda-covid-19-cluster-expands-with-49-fresh-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster expands with 49 fresh cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster has confirmed 49 more positive cases this evening (16), says the Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-five of them have been identified as apparel factory workers and contacts who are in quarantine centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 14 are contacts of Covid-19 positive patients from the cluster, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka registered 110 novel coronavirus infections so far within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the total number of Covid-19 cases reported from the Minuwangoda cluster has soared to 1,899.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster has confirmed 49 more positive cases this evening (16), says the Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva.&nbsp; Thirty-five of them have been identified as apparel factory workers and contacts who are in quarantine centers. The remaining 14 are contacts of Covid-19 positive patients from the cluster, [&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-107647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107647","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=107647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}