{"id":109873,"date":"2020-12-19T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T23:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109873"},"modified":"2020-12-19T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T23:48:34","slug":"618-more-coronavirus-cases-detected-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/19\/618-more-coronavirus-cases-detected-today\/","title":{"rendered":"618 more coronavirus cases detected today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department says that another 123 persons have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All new cases are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of coronavirus cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, and prison clusters to 32,998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tally of Covid-19 cases reported within the country thus far has risen to 36,667 while the number of total recoveries has climbed to 27,552.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently a total of 8,950 infected patients are being treated at hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (19) as 495 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>One of them was detected in random rapid antigen tests carried out on people leaving the Western Province, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said. A total of 750 persons who were moving out of the provincial limits have been subjected to rapid antigen testing today.<\/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 36,544.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 27,552 earlier today, as 491 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 8,827 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 165 deaths related to Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department says that another 123 persons have tested positive for Covid-19. All new cases are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, and prison clusters to 32,998. The tally of Covid-19 cases reported within the country [&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-109873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109873","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=109873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}