{"id":113606,"date":"2021-04-18T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113606"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:40:04","slug":"coronavirus-287-more-cases-and-another-death-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/18\/coronavirus-287-more-cases-and-another-death-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 287 more cases and another death reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Health on Friday (April 18) confirmed 27 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 287.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 96,797.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s recovery count is at 93,113 while 3,065 are receiving treatment at selected hospitals across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, another coronavirus death was reported from Pitabeddara today (April 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the 618th COVID-19 death reported in Sri Lanka due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased is a 52-year-old male who had been diagnosed with Covid 19 virus while receiving treatment from the Apeksha Hospital in Maharagama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been subsequently transferred to the IDH hospital where he died yesterday (April 17) from COVID-19 pneumonia and acute leukemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health on Friday (April 18) confirmed 27 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 287. The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 96,797. The country\u2019s recovery count is at 93,113 while 3,065 are [&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-113606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113606","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=113606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}