{"id":111260,"date":"2021-02-02T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111260"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:20:42","slug":"coronavirus-715-new-infections-confirmed-within-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/02\/coronavirus-715-new-infections-confirmed-within-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 715 new infections confirmed 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 354 more persons were tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has registered 715 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0dc4\u0dda\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba\u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda \u0db4\u0dc5\u0db8\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0ddb\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dcf \u0d9c\u0dba\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkfspbnWaII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following today\u2019s development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 65,698.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports revealed that 59,043 persons who were previously infected with the virus have made complete recoveries to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, 6,332 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 354 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The country has registered 715 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the [&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-111260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111260","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=111260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}