{"id":10684,"date":"2021-04-11T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2021-04-11T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:00:23","slug":"covid-284-new-infections-registered-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/covid-284-new-infections-registered-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 284 new infections registered on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ministry of Health on Saturday (April 10) confirmed 124 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 284.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the newly-identified coronavirus patients are 16 individuals who arrived in Sri Lanka from overseas and 54 from the prison cluster, the Department of Government Information said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 94,848.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Epidemiology Unit, 2,796 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care at designated hospitals and treatment centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total recoveries from the virus infection have reached 90,708 while the death toll stands at 596.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Health on Saturday (April 10) confirmed 124 more new cases of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10685,"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-10684","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\/10684","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=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}