{"id":120927,"date":"2021-12-06T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120927"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:25:23","slug":"sri-lankas-daily-count-of-covid-cases-hits-741-and-confirms-another-23-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/06\/sri-lankas-daily-count-of-covid-cases-hits-741-and-confirms-another-23-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s daily count of Covid cases hits 741 and confirms another 23  deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that another 173 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases detected to 741.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus cases confirmed today includes two returnees from overseas, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the ministry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s total count of Covid-19 cases reported climbs to 568,423 with this while over 11,000 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment in the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 23 coronavirus related deaths for November 05, raising the country\u2019s death toll due to the Covid-19 pandemic to 14,484.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 15 males and 08 female patients while three of the deceased are between the ages 30-59 years. The remaining 20 victims 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 173 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases detected to 741. The coronavirus cases confirmed today includes two returnees from overseas, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the ministry.&nbsp; Sri Lanka\u2019s total count of Covid-19 cases reported climbs to 568,423 [&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-120927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120927","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=120927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}