{"id":117963,"date":"2021-09-09T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117963"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T21:52:52","slug":"daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-2856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/09\/daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-2856\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of new Covid-19 cases climbs to 2,856"},"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 another 910 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, increasing the daily count of new Covid-19 cases identified today to 2,856.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 477,636.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of infected patients currently under medical care at hospitals and treatment centers and under home-based care is 58,656.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile total recoveries from the virus has risen to 408,116 and the death toll stands at 10,864.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 910 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, increasing the daily count of new Covid-19 cases identified today to 2,856. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 477,636. The number of infected patients currently under medical care [&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-117963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117963","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=117963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}