{"id":9184,"date":"2020-07-10T03:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2020-07-10T03:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:13:39","slug":"coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-rise-to-2153-with-59-more-infected-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/coronavirus-update-sri-lanka-covid-19-cases-rise-to-2153-with-59-more-infected-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus update: Sri Lanka COVID-19 cases rise to 2153 with 59 more infected persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 cases rose to 2,153 today with 59 more persons testing positive for the coronavirus, the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Health Ministry 56 of the positive cases are inmates from the Drug Rehabilitation Center in East Kandakadu and a counselor at the center has also tested positive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A returnee from Qatar and a Navy sailor at Poonawa Quarantine Center tested positive for the virus, the Government Information Center said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the Epidemiology Unit report, as of 6 pm Thursday, 163 patients are receiving treatment at hospitals. Another 45 Individuals are currently under investigations in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eleven patients have died while 1,979 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\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 cases rose to 2,153 today with 59 more persons testing positive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9185,"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-9184","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\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}