{"id":110468,"date":"2021-01-07T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110468"},"modified":"2021-01-07T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T23:26:51","slug":"532-confirmed-covid-19-cases-total-hit-46780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/07\/532-confirmed-covid-19-cases-total-hit-46780\/","title":{"rendered":"532 Confirmed COVID-19 cases total hit 46,780"},"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 46,780 as 277 more persons were tested positive for the virus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, 231 of the new cases were confirmed as close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster while 39 others were confirmed from the prison cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 07 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries \u2013 03 from Italy, 03 from Sudan and 01 from Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Department of Government Information said 532 fresh cases have been detected within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Health Ministry\u2019s data, 39,661 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 6,897 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll from the virus meanwhile stands at 222.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,780 as 277 more persons were tested positive for the virus.&nbsp; Reportedly, 231 of the new cases were confirmed as close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster while 39 others were confirmed from the prison cluster. The remaining 07 were identified [&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-110468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110468","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=110468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}