{"id":110655,"date":"2021-01-13T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110655"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:35:29","slug":"with-687-new-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-total-cross-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/13\/with-687-new-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-total-cross-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"With  687 new Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka, total cross 50,000"},"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 50,000 as 378 more persons have tested positive today (January 13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 687 cases have been reported within the day so far.<\/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 55,229.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 43,267 earlier today, with more patients returning to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 6,718 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the death toll from the virus stands at 244 at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed 50,000 as 378 more persons have tested positive today (January 13). The Government Information Department said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market cluster.&nbsp; A total of 687 cases have been reported within the day so far. As [&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-110655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110655","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=110655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}