{"id":8867,"date":"2020-06-05T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2020-06-05T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T06:35:12","slug":"coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-jump-to-1797-with-48-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-jump-to-1797-with-48-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus update: Sri Lanka COVID-19 cases jump to 1797 with 48 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 cases tally increased to 1,797 Thursday with 48 more persons testing positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Epidemiology Unit report updated at 11 pm Thursday, 947 confirmed patients are receiving treatment at hospitals while 56 individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eleven patients have died while 839 patients including the Chinese tourist, who was the first COVID-19 case detected in the country in January, have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A total of 70,290 PCR tests have been conducted to detect Covid-19 infected persons from February 18 to June 03, 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\u2019s COVID-19 cases tally increased to 1,797 Thursday with 48 more persons testing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8868,"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-8867","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\/8867","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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}