{"id":111114,"date":"2021-01-29T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111114"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:12:56","slug":"859-new-cases-of-coronavirus-reported-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/29\/859-new-cases-of-coronavirus-reported-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"859 new cases of coronavirus reported in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government Information Department says that another 465 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today\u2019s tally of confirmed cases to 859.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven of the new cases are from the prisons cluster while the remainder (458) are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of coronavirus cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, and prison clusters to 58,489.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tally of Covid-19 cases reported within the country thus far has risen to 62,445 while the number of total recoveries has climbed to 55,398.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently a total of 6,742 infected patients are being treated at hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department says that another 465 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today\u2019s tally of confirmed cases to 859. Seven of the new cases are from the prisons cluster while the remainder (458) are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of coronavirus [&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-111114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111114","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=111114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}