{"id":111997,"date":"2021-02-24T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111997"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:26:15","slug":"covid-19-figures-up-by-458-new-positive-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/24\/covid-19-figures-up-by-458-new-positive-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 figures up by 458 new positive cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has registered 266 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 24), the Ministry of Health confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 458 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 81,467.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 76,514 earlier today, as 672 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 4,496 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of lives claimed by the pandemic outbreak sits at 457 at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 266 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 24), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 458 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 81,467. Recoveries from [&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-111997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111997","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=111997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}