{"id":110797,"date":"2021-01-19T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110797"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:39:29","slug":"coronavirus-669-infections-in-total-confirmed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/19\/coronavirus-669-infections-in-total-confirmed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 669 infections in total confirmed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka registered 332 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (January 19) as the daily total climbed to 669.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information confirmed that 323 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 09 positive cases were confirmed as arrivals from foreign countries; 08 from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 01 from Poland.<\/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 54,419.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 46,594 earlier today, as 774 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 7,555 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 registered 332 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (January 19) as the daily total climbed to 669. Department of Government Information confirmed that 323 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining 09 positive cases were confirmed as arrivals from foreign [&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-110797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110797","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=110797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}