{"id":120697,"date":"2021-11-28T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120697"},"modified":"2021-11-28T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:27:35","slug":"daily-coronavirus-cases-count-climbs-to-742-and-reports-another-27-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/28\/daily-coronavirus-cases-count-climbs-to-742-and-reports-another-27-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily coronavirus cases count climbs to 742 and reports another 27 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that another 210 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, pushing the daily count of new cases to 742.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 562,520 while over 18,500 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment island-wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 27 coronavirus related deaths for November 27, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 529,662.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today include 14 males and 13 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 22 are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 210 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, pushing the daily count of new cases to 742. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 562,520 while over 18,500 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment island-wide.\u00a0 The Director General of Health Services [&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-120697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120697","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=120697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}