{"id":121691,"date":"2022-01-02T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121691"},"modified":"2022-01-02T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T00:08:14","slug":"coronavirus-339-new-cases-and-24-new-covid-19-related-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/02\/coronavirus-339-new-cases-and-24-new-covid-19-related-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: 339 new cases and 24 new COVID-19 related deaths reported in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 339 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today (02).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes three persons who had arrived from overseas, according to the latest figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in the country rises to 587,935 with this while approximately 11,967 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the official death toll since the start of the pandemic surpassed 15,000 today after 24 more Covid-19 related deaths were confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has registered 24 new COVID-19 related deaths for January 01, pushing the death toll since the start of the pandemic past 15000, data showed on Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed the Covid death figures for yesterday, which includes 20 males and 04 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven of the patients were between the ages of 30-59 years while the other 13 were aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of coronavirus related deaths in the country thus far to 15,019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 339 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today (02). This includes three persons who had arrived from overseas, according to the latest figures.&nbsp; The total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in the country rises to 587,935 with this while approximately 11,967 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment.&nbsp; [&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-121691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121691","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=121691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}