{"id":110500,"date":"2021-01-08T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110500"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:45:36","slug":"coronavirus-524-new-cases-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/08\/coronavirus-524-new-cases-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 524 new cases confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department reports that 273 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today\u2019s tally of fresh cases to 524 thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All new cases are close associates of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of positive cases reported from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters so far stands at 43,547.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country has increased to 47,305 while total recoveries is currently at 40,317.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently a total of 6,766 patients infected with the virus are under medical care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department reports that 273 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today\u2019s tally of fresh cases to 524 thus far. All new cases are close associates of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. The total number of positive cases reported from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters so far [&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-110500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110500","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=110500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}