{"id":116781,"date":"2021-08-05T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116781"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:31:29","slug":"covid-19-with-784-new-cases-daily-count-climbs-to-2669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/05\/covid-19-with-784-new-cases-daily-count-climbs-to-2669\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: with 784 new cases, daily count climbs to 2,669"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 784 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,669.<br>&nbsp;<br>This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 321,429.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s total recoveries stands at 286,365 while over 30,000 covid positive patients are currently being treated at hospitals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus is 4,821.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 784 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,669.&nbsp;This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 321,429. Sri Lanka\u2019s total recoveries stands at 286,365 while over 30,000 covid [&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-116781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116781","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=116781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}