{"id":118766,"date":"2021-10-01T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118766"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:02:40","slug":"covid-19-another-249-cases-takes-daily-count-to-893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/01\/covid-19-another-249-cases-takes-daily-count-to-893\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: another 249 cases takes daily count to 893"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 249 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases reported within today to 893.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, this brings the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in Sri Lanka to 518,775.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47,726 coronavirus infected patients are currently under medical care and home-based care across the island while total recoveries stands at 458,085.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll due to the virus meanwhile has risen to 12,964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 249 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases reported within today to 893. Accordingly, this brings the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in Sri Lanka to 518,775. 47,726 coronavirus infected patients are currently under medical care and home-based 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-118766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118766","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=118766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}