{"id":120718,"date":"2021-11-29T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120718"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:17:27","slug":"747-coronavirus-cases-reported-and-23-deaths-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/29\/747-coronavirus-cases-reported-and-23-deaths-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-today\/","title":{"rendered":"747 coronavirus cases reported and 23 deaths confirmed in Sri Lanka today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 206 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 pushing the daily count on fresh cases detected to 747.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases include two returnees from overseas while the rest are associated with the New Year Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of coronavirus cases registered in Sri Lanka thus far to 563,267.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently approximately 8,899 infected patients are undergoing treatment 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 28, increasing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 14,328.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths confirmed today include 16 male patients and 07 females. Four of the victims are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining nineteen are aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 206 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 pushing the daily count on fresh cases detected to 747. The new cases include two returnees from overseas while the rest are associated with the New Year Covid-19 cluster.&nbsp; This brings the total number of coronavirus cases registered 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-120718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120718","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=120718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}