{"id":113712,"date":"2021-04-21T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113712"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:57:15","slug":"uptick-in-covid-figures-as-daily-cases-climb-to-578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/21\/uptick-in-covid-figures-as-daily-cases-climb-to-578\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptick in COVID figures as daily cases climb to 578"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Health on Wednesday (April 21) confirmed 217 new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 578.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Government Information said 62 arrivals from foreign countries are also among the newly-identified cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 98,050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the country\u2019s recoveries count is at 93,668 while 3,752 active cases are receiving treatment at selected hospitals across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has so far witnessed a total of 630 deaths due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health on Wednesday (April 21) confirmed 217 new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 578. Department of Government Information said 62 arrivals from foreign countries are also among the newly-identified cases. The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the [&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-113712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113712","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=113712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}