{"id":121143,"date":"2021-12-13T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121143"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:32:09","slug":"daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-747-and-confirms-another-27-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/13\/daily-count-of-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-747-and-confirms-another-27-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of Covid-19 cases climbs to 747 and confirms another 27 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 195 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, moving the daily count of new cases detected to 747.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the coronavirus infected patients identified today are returnees from overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country to 573,649 while approximately 13,575 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 December 12, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 14,641.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths confirmed today includes one person below the age of 30 years while 13 are between the ages 30-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining 13 victims are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 195 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, moving the daily count of new cases detected to 747. Two of the coronavirus infected patients identified today are returnees from overseas. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country to 573,649 while approximately 13,575 infected [&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-121143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121143","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=121143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}