{"id":8801,"date":"2020-05-24T02:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2020-05-24T02:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T02:25:04","slug":"coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1085-with-17-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1085-with-17-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus update: Sri Lanka COVID-19 cases rise to 1085 with 17 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka reported 17 new cases Saturday, raising the total number of people contracted the coronavirus to 1085, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Health Promotion Bureau report updated at 5 pm today, 416 confirmed patients are receiving treatment at hospitals while 101 individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nine patients have died while 660 patients including the Chinese tourist, who was the first COVID-19 case detected in the country in January and discharged last month, have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A total of 51,094 PCR tests have been conducted to detect Covid-19 infected persons from February 18 to May 22, according to the Health Promotion Bureau report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka reported 17 new cases Saturday, raising the total number of people contracted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","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=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}