{"id":110427,"date":"2021-01-06T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110427"},"modified":"2021-01-06T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:30:12","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-521-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/06\/sri-lanka-reports-521-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports 521 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,248 as 269 more persons were tested positive for the virus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, all 269 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Government Information said 521 fresh cases have been detected within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Health Ministry\u2019s data, 39,023 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 7,006 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers across the country.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,248 as 269 more persons were tested positive for the virus.&nbsp; Reportedly, all 269 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. According to the Department of Government Information said 521 fresh cases have been detected within [&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-110427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110427","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=110427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}