{"id":8804,"date":"2020-05-26T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2020-05-26T03:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:47:04","slug":"coronavirus-update-52-covid-19-positive-patients-reported-in-sri-lanka-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coronavirus-update-52-covid-19-positive-patients-reported-in-sri-lanka-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus update: 52 COVID-19 positive patients reported in Sri Lanka Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka reported 52 new cases by the end of the day Sunday, raising the total number of people contracted the coronavirus to 1141, the Health Ministry reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Government Information Department, 49 of the COVID-19 positive cases were returnees from Kuwait and placed under quarantine process at the Trincomalee and Minneriya quarantine centers. One other COVID-19 positive has arrived from Indonesia and was in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Epidemiology Unit report updated at 11:45 pm Sunday, 458 confirmed patients are receiving treatment at hospitals while 97 individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nine patients have died while 674 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 54,834 PCR tests have been conducted to detect Covid-19 infected persons from February 18 to May 24, 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 52 new cases by the end of the day Sunday, raising&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8805,"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-8804","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\/8804","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=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}