{"id":121000,"date":"2021-12-09T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121000"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T23:50:15","slug":"daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-744-22-more-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/09\/daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-in-sri-lanka-moves-to-744-22-more-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of Covid-19 cases in Sri Lanka moves to 744 &#038; 22 more deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that another 236 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 744.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases of Covid-19 reported today includes one returnee from overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country increase to 570,672 while approximately 12,294 infected patients are undergoing treatment currently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 22 more novel coronavirus-related deaths for December 08, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 14,555.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today include 13 males and 09 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 16 are in the age group of 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 236 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 744.&nbsp; The new cases of Covid-19 reported today includes one returnee from overseas. Meanwhile the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country increase to 570,672 while approximately 12,294 [&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-121000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121000","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=121000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}