{"id":109644,"date":"2020-12-12T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109644"},"modified":"2020-12-12T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:42:17","slug":"755-more-coronavirus-cases-reported-within-the-day-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/12\/755-more-coronavirus-cases-reported-within-the-day-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"755 more coronavirus cases reported within the day in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers went up again today (12), as 123 more persons were tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly-identified patients were identified as close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the new development in Covid-19 figures, the Minuwangoda-Peliyagoda cluster\u2019s infections tally has reached 28,502.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, a total of 755 positive cases have been detected within the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 32,130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 23,304 earlier today, as 473 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 8,679 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has also witnessed 146 deaths related to Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers went up again today (12), as 123 more persons were tested positive for the virus. The newly-identified patients were identified as close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Following the new development in Covid-19 figures, the Minuwangoda-Peliyagoda cluster\u2019s infections tally has reached 28,502. Thereby, a [&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-109644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109644","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=109644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}