{"id":11200,"date":"2021-09-02T05:57:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2021-09-02T05:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:57:40","slug":"daily-covid-case-count-climbs-to-3828-as-deaths-spike-by-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/daily-covid-case-count-climbs-to-3828-as-deaths-spike-by-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID case count climbs to 3,828 as deaths spike by 215"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 944 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3.828.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 444,130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many as 376,216 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epidemiology Unit\u2019s data showed that 58,729 active cases are currently under medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has registered 215 more COVID-19 related fatalities on Tuesday (August 31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 9,400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 115 males and 100 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reportedly, among the victims two are aged below 30 years, 46 victims are aged between 30-59 years and 167 others aged 60 and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 944 persons have tested&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11201,"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-11200","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\/11200","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=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}