{"id":111294,"date":"2021-02-03T17:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111294"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:14:26","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-count-up-by-357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/03\/sri-lankas-covid-19-cases-count-up-by-357\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 cases count up by 357"},"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 (February 03) as 357 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 711 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 66,409.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports revealed that 59,883 persons who were previously infected with the virus have made complete recoveries to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, 6,194 active cases are still under medical care at selected 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 (February 03) as 357 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 711 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-111294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111294","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=111294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}