{"id":111803,"date":"2021-02-18T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111803"},"modified":"2021-02-18T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:37:24","slug":"covid-19-over-500-new-cases-reported-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/18\/covid-19-over-500-new-cases-reported-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: over 500 new cases reported today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 243 persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus increasing today\u2019s tally of new cases to 501.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All new cases are close contacts of infected patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases from Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters to 74,371.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 243 persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus increasing today\u2019s tally of new cases to 501.&nbsp; All new cases are close contacts of infected patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases from Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters to 74,371.<\/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-111803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111803","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=111803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}