{"id":9771,"date":"2020-09-18T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:24:21","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-infections-count-at-3276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-covid-19-infections-count-at-3276\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 infections count at 3,276"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,276 as three more arrivals from foreign countries tested positive for the virus last night (17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cases include 02 recent arrivals from Oman and another one from Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Government Information said two other arrivals from the UAE and Qatar also tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 3,043 as 22 persons infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals yesterday, upon recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epidemiology Unit says that 220 active cases are currently under medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka has thus far witnessed 13 deaths due to the virus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,276 as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9772,"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-9771","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\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}