{"id":119482,"date":"2021-10-23T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119482"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:15:05","slug":"daily-count-of-covid-cases-climbs-to-554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/23\/daily-count-of-covid-cases-climbs-to-554\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of COVID cases climbs to 554"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The daily count of COVID-positive cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 554 today (October 23), says the Epidemiology Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One returnee from overseas is also among the newly-confirmed cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 535,529.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 503,090 recoveries and 13,593 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 18,800 active cases in total are currently under medical care, official figures showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-positive cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 554 today (October 23), says the Epidemiology Unit. One returnee from overseas is also among the newly-confirmed cases. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 535,529. As many as 503,090 recoveries and 13,593 [&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-119482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119482","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=119482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}