{"id":112743,"date":"2021-03-17T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112743"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T22:42:34","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-caseload-up-by-322-more-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/17\/sri-lankas-covid-19-caseload-up-by-322-more-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 caseload up by 322 more infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has registered 140 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 17), the Ministry of Health confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 322 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 88,862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 85,725 earlier today, as 354 more patients regained health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 2,600 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total lives claimed by the pandemic outbreak sits at 537 at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 140 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 17), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 322 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 88,862. 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-112743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112743","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=112743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}