{"id":121641,"date":"2021-12-30T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121641"},"modified":"2021-12-30T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:35:26","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-563-new-cases-of-covid-19-and-18-new-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/30\/sri-lanka-reports-563-new-cases-of-covid-19-and-18-new-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports 563 new cases of Covid-19 and 18 new fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that 563 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes two persons who had returned from overseas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported in the country to 586,746.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11,471 patients infected with the virus are currently being treated across the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 18 new coronavirus-related deaths for December 29, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 14,962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 09 males and 09 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the patients are aged between 30-59 years. The remaining 12 are in the age group of 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that 563 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (30). This figure includes two persons who had returned from overseas.&nbsp; This brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported in the country to 586,746. 11,471 patients infected with the virus are currently being treated across the island.\u00a0 [&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-121641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121641","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=121641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}