{"id":117883,"date":"2021-09-07T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117883"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:43:11","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-2964-covid-cases-in-total-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/07\/sri-lanka-confirms-2964-covid-cases-in-total-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 2,964 COVID cases in total today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that 1,141 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the confirmed tally of coronavirus infections reported in the country to 471,863.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 388,278 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per official data, more than 73,000 active cases are currently under medical care at hospitals, treatment centres and homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Sri Lanka registered 184 new COVID-related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (Sep. 06). The new development pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 10,504.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that 1,141 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,964. This brings the confirmed tally of coronavirus infections reported in the country to 471,863. A total of 388,278 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri [&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-117883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117883","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=117883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}