{"id":121499,"date":"2021-12-25T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121499"},"modified":"2021-12-25T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:13:12","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-529-new-cases-of-coronavirus-and-another-19-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/25\/sri-lanka-reports-529-new-cases-of-coronavirus-and-another-19-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports 529 new cases of coronavirus and another 19 coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 529 persons have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases confirmed today includes one returnee from overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country to 583,251 while presently approximately 9,252 infected patients are undergoing treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 19 coronavirus related deaths for December 24, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 14,871.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths confirmed today include 07 males and 12 females, according to the latest figures released by the Govt. Information Department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the victims is below the age of 30 years while two are between 30-59 years. The remaining 16 patients are above the age of 60 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 529 persons have tested positive for Covid-19. The new cases confirmed today includes one returnee from overseas. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country to 583,251 while presently approximately 9,252 infected patients are undergoing treatment.\u00a0 The Director General of Health Services has [&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-121499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121499","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=121499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}