{"id":120808,"date":"2021-12-02T17:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120808"},"modified":"2021-12-02T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:57:59","slug":"daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-reaches-735-and-27-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/02\/daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-reaches-735-and-27-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of new Covid-19 cases reaches 735 and 27 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health reports that another 197 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 735.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of Covid-29 cases confirmed in the country to 565,471.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 10,000 infected patients are presently being treated for the virus across the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 27 coronavirus-related deaths for December 01, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 14,399.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today include 16 males and 11 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 19 are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 197 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 735.&nbsp; This brings the total number of Covid-29 cases confirmed in the country to 565,471. Nearly 10,000 infected patients are presently being treated for the virus across the [&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-120808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120808","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=120808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}