{"id":120281,"date":"2021-11-14T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120281"},"modified":"2021-11-14T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:24:19","slug":"697-coronavirus-cases-and-another-23-coronavirus-deaths-reported-today-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/14\/697-coronavirus-cases-and-another-23-coronavirus-deaths-reported-today-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"697 coronavirus cases and another 23 coronavirus deaths reported today in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 199 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 697.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fresh cases confirmed includes 02 returnees from overseas and 197 patients associated with the \u2018New Year\u2019 Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of confirmed cases of the virus in the country to 551,542 thus far while over 13,500 infected patients are being treated across the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 23 coronavirus related deaths for November 13, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 13,995.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today includes 10 males and 13 female patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the victims are between the ages of 30-59 years while the remaining 17 are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 199 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 697. The fresh cases confirmed includes 02 returnees from overseas and 197 patients associated with the \u2018New Year\u2019 Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp; This brings the tally of confirmed cases of the virus in [&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-120281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120281","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=120281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}