{"id":117271,"date":"2021-08-19T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117271"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:54:38","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-climbs-to-3793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/19\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-climbs-to-3793\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count climbs to 3,793"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health reported that another 1,073 persons shave tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases in Sri Lanka to 3,793.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All new cases confirmed today are associated with the \u2018New Year\u2019 Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, this brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country thus far to 373,165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 47,847 infected patients are currently under medical care while total Covid-19 recoveries has increased to 318,714.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka is 6,604.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 1,073 persons shave tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases in Sri Lanka to 3,793. All new cases confirmed today are associated with the \u2018New Year\u2019 Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp; Accordingly, this brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country thus [&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-117271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117271","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=117271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}