{"id":110044,"date":"2020-12-24T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110044"},"modified":"2020-12-24T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:23:17","slug":"coronavirus-sri-lanka-records-186-new-infections-with-a-total-of-592-positive-cases-within-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/24\/coronavirus-sri-lanka-records-186-new-infections-with-a-total-of-592-positive-cases-within-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Sri Lanka records 186 new infections with a total of 592 positive cases 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 as 186 more persons were tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Government Information newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, four arrivals from the United Kingdom (03) and Iran (01) were also tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, Sri Lanka registered a total of 592 positive cases within the day.<\/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 39,231.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 30,568 earlier today, as 686 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 8,478 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres located across the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today as 186 more persons were tested positive for the virus. According to the Department of Government Information newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. In addition, four arrivals from the United Kingdom (03) and Iran (01) 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-110044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110044","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=110044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}