{"id":111082,"date":"2021-01-28T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111082"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:16:40","slug":"coronavirus-892-new-cases-reported-within-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/28\/coronavirus-892-new-cases-reported-within-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 892 new cases reported within the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (January 28) as 501 more persons were tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information said 501 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 40 are reportedly arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (33) and Oman (07).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has registered 892 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With today\u2019s development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 61,586.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports revealed that 54,435 persons who were previously infected with the virus have made complete recoveries to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, 6,854 active cases are still under medical care at multiple hospitals and treatment centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (January 28) as 501 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said 501 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 40 are reportedly arrivals from the United Arab [&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-111082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111082","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=111082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}