{"id":121366,"date":"2021-12-21T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121366"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:23:52","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-713-new-cases-of-coronavirus-and-24-new-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/21\/sri-lanka-reports-713-new-cases-of-coronavirus-and-24-new-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports 713 new cases of coronavirus and 24 new fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that a total of 713 new cases of coronavirus have been identified within today (21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes one person who had arrived from overseas, the Govt. Information Department reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s total count of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has climbed to 580,922 with this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8,212 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 24 more coronavirus-related deaths for December 20, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 14,795.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 11 males and 13 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years and the remaining 19 are in the age group of 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that a total of 713 new cases of coronavirus have been identified within today (21). This includes one person who had arrived from overseas, the Govt. Information Department reported.&nbsp; Sri Lanka\u2019s total count of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has climbed to 580,922 with this.&nbsp; 8,212 patients infected with 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-121366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121366","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=121366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}