{"id":109664,"date":"2020-12-13T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109664"},"modified":"2020-12-13T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T23:40:51","slug":"coronavirus-650-new-positive-cases-registered-within-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/13\/coronavirus-650-new-positive-cases-registered-within-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 650 new positive cases registered within the day."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (13), with 135 more persons testing 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 29,152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, a total of 650 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 32,785.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 23,793 earlier today, as 489 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 8,843 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 149 deaths related to Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (13), with 135 more persons testing 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 29,152. Thereby, a total [&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-109664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109664","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=109664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}