{"id":111357,"date":"2021-02-05T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111357"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:00:19","slug":"coronavirus-735-new-positive-cases-within-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/05\/coronavirus-735-new-positive-cases-within-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 735 new positive cases within the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has registered 399 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 05), the Ministry of Health confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information said 393 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 06 are arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 735 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 67,850.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 61,461 earlier today, as 894 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 6,046 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total lives claimed by the pandemic outbreak sits at 343 at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 399 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 05), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Department of Government Information said 393 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 06 are arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Thereby, Sri Lanka [&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-111357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111357","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=111357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}