{"id":10232,"date":"2020-12-11T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:07:45","slug":"covid-19-infections-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-cross-31000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/covid-19-infections-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-cross-31000\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 infections confirmed in Sri Lanka cross 31,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka swept past the grim milestone of 31,000 as 536 more persons were tested positive today (11), the Health Ministry revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government Information Department stated that 461 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining 75 have been detected from the prison cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per Epidemiology Unit data, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 31,149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 22,831 earlier today, with 570 more patients returning to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, 8,178 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres located across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka has also witnessed 146 deaths related to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka swept past the grim milestone of 31,000 as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10233,"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-10232","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\/10232","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=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}