{"id":111183,"date":"2021-01-31T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111183"},"modified":"2021-01-31T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T23:10:08","slug":"with-864-positive-cases-total-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-cross-64000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/31\/with-864-positive-cases-total-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-cross-64000\/","title":{"rendered":"With 864 positive cases, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka cross 64,000"},"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 surge today (January 31) as 513 more persons were tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information said 476 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. Another 10 are were meanwhile linked to the prison cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 27 have been identified as arrivals from foreign countries: 17 from the United Arab Emirates and 10 from South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has registered 864 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following today\u2019s development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 64,157.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Epidemiology Unit, 882 more persons who were previously infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals upon returning to health today, raising the recoveries count to 57,159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, 6,685 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 surge today (January 31) as 513 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said 476 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. Another 10 are were meanwhile linked to the prison cluster. [&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-111183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111183","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=111183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}