{"id":10119,"date":"2020-11-18T05:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2020-11-18T05:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:04:30","slug":"coronavirus-update-401-new-covid-19-cases-identified-tuesday-total-surpasses-18000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coronavirus-update-401-new-covid-19-cases-identified-tuesday-total-surpasses-18000\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus update: 401 new COVID-19 cases identified Tuesday, total surpasses 18000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 401 new COVID-19 cases were reported so far on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the positive cases identified Tuesday are 398 close contacts of the infected from Peliyagoda COVID-19 cluster and three marine security personnel arrived from overseas and currently in quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Epidemiology Unit report at 10 pm Tuesday, a total of 18,075 COVID-19 cases have been reported and 5,799 patients received medical care at hospitals. Another 516 individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka reported 66 deaths and 12,210 patients including the Chinese tourist, who was the first COVID-19 case detected in the country in January, have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 680,843 PCR tests have been conducted to detect Covid-19 infected persons from February 18 to November 16, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 401 new COVID-19 cases were reported&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}