{"id":107953,"date":"2020-10-24T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107953"},"modified":"2020-10-24T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T20:20:31","slug":"ninety-two-more-cases-from-peliyagoda-covid-19-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/24\/ninety-two-more-cases-from-peliyagoda-covid-19-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninety-two more cases from Peliyagoda COVID-19 cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ninety-two more individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Army Chief, all of them are close contacts of the coronavirus patients linked to Peliyagoda Fish Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a total of 368 cases of COVID-19 positive cases have been identified within the day far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda cluster has registered a total of 4,050 positive cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the latest update, the total number of Covid-19 confirmed in Sri Lanka shot up to 7,521.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit\u2019s statistics revealed that 3,792 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus now stand at 3,714 after 70 persons infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals earlier in the day upon regaining health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka also witnessed its 15th death this morning, as a 56-year-old from Kuliyapitiya fell victim to Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Ninety-two more individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said. According to the Army Chief, all of them are close contacts of the coronavirus patients linked to Peliyagoda Fish Market. Meanwhile, a total of 368 cases of COVID-19 positive cases have been identified within the [&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-107953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107953","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=107953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}