{"id":109906,"date":"2020-12-20T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109906"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:46:31","slug":"594-cases-detected-within-the-day-sri-lankas-covid-19-caseload-surpasses-37000-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/20\/594-cases-detected-within-the-day-sri-lankas-covid-19-caseload-surpasses-37000-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"594 cases detected within the day-Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 caseload surpasses 37,000 mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed the grim milestone of 37,000 as 330 more persons were tested positive today (20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department stated that 322 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. In addition, 08 from the prison cluster were also confirmed to be positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new development, total positive cases detected within the day stand at 592.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per statistics, Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date have reached 37,261.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 28,267 earlier today, with 715 more patients returning to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 8,823 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 171 deaths related to Covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed the grim milestone of 37,000 as 330 more persons were tested positive today (20). The Government Information Department stated that 322 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. In addition, 08 from the prison cluster were also [&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-109906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109906","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=109906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}