{"id":114113,"date":"2021-05-09T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114113"},"modified":"2021-05-09T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T21:15:14","slug":"sri-lanka-records-highest-daily-count-with-2659-covid-19-cases-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/09\/sri-lanka-records-highest-daily-count-with-2659-covid-19-cases-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records highest daily count with 2,659 COVID-19 cases today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka reports the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases recorded so far as 927 more tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, a total of 2,659 coronavirus-positive cases have been reported today (May 09).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of cases reported in the country to 125,906.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 20,657 COVID-19 patients are currently receiving treatment at selected hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of total recoveries has reached 104,463.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reports the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases recorded so far as 927 more tested positive for the virus. Accordingly, a total of 2,659 coronavirus-positive cases have been reported today (May 09). This brings the total number of cases reported in the country to 125,906. A total of 20,657 COVID-19 patients [&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-114113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114113","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=114113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}