{"id":109305,"date":"2020-12-03T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109305"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:10:37","slug":"covid-19-878-cases-reported-yesterday-highest-in-a-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/03\/covid-19-878-cases-reported-yesterday-highest-in-a-single-day\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: 878 cases reported yesterday, highest in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A total of 878 COVID-19 infected persons were identified in the country yesterday (2), and this is the highest number of cases reported within a single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department stated that all the infected persons identified yesterday are linked to the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda COVID-19 clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of COVID-19 cases emerged from the Minuwangoda Apparel factory and Peliyagoda fish market clusters have increased to 21,861.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit stated that about 400 infected persons have been reported from the Colombo District, increasing the number of COVID-19 cases reported in the Colombo District to 10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today A total of 878 COVID-19 infected persons were identified in the country yesterday (2), and this is the highest number of cases reported within a single day. The Government Information Department stated that all the infected persons identified yesterday are linked to the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda COVID-19 clusters. The total number 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-109305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109305","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=109305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}