{"id":116966,"date":"2021-08-11T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T22:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116966"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T22:53:48","slug":"discrepancies-in-statistics-on-covid-infections-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/11\/discrepancies-in-statistics-on-covid-infections-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrepancies in statistics on COVID infections (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> It has been revealed that there is a discrepancy in the statistics on COVID infections in the Gampaha District and the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gampaha district has the second-highest number of infected persons in the country with 58,943 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0db6\u0dbb\u0db4\u0dad\u0dc5 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc3\u0d9a\u0dca - \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0da0\u0dca\u0da0\u0dbb \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0d91\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda \u0db1\u0dd1  - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XxiHzgMWYac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this backdrop, the Gampaha District COVID Control&nbsp; Committee met at the Gampaha District Secretariat yesterday to find a solution to the increasing COVID risk in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Observation of the data presented by the Gampaha District Health Director&#8217;s Office revealed that there was a discrepancy between the identification and reporting of infected persons in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data released by the COVID Task Force to the daily media, only 3,729 cases have been reported in those 8 days whereas, in the first eight days of August, 12,555 cases have been reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 8,826 cases have not been reported to the Epidemiology Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Gampaha District, there is a discrepancy in the statistics of COVID infections in the Eastern Province as well, according to data presented by the Eastern Provincial Director of Health Services <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that there is a discrepancy in the statistics on COVID infections in the Gampaha District and the Eastern Province. The Gampaha district has the second-highest number of infected persons in the country with 58,943 cases. Against this backdrop, the Gampaha District COVID Control&nbsp; Committee met at the Gampaha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966","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=116966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}