{"id":117758,"date":"2021-09-03T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117758"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:11:31","slug":"covid-202-new-deaths-confirmed-as-daily-cases-climb-over-3600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/03\/covid-202-new-deaths-confirmed-as-daily-cases-climb-over-3600\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 202 new deaths confirmed as daily cases climb over 3,600"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that 864 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,644.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the confirmed tally of coronavirus infections reported in the country to 451,401.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 380,166 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per official data, more than 61,000 active cases are currently under medical care at hospitals, treatment centres and homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Sri Lanka registered 202 new COVID-related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (Sep. 02).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 9,806.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 113 males and 89 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 155 of them were senior citizens aged 60 years and above. Five others were below the age of 30 years and the remaining 42 were aged between 30-59 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that 864 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,644. This brings the confirmed tally of coronavirus infections reported in the country to 451,401. A total of 380,166 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}