{"id":121754,"date":"2022-01-04T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121754"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:27:24","slug":"covid-629-cases-confirmed-and-18-new-covid-deaths-in-sri-lanka-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/04\/covid-629-cases-confirmed-and-18-new-covid-deaths-in-sri-lanka-today\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 629 cases confirmed and 18 new COVID deaths in Sri Lanka today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health reported that another 629 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (January 04).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 09 individuals who had arrived in the country from overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the new development, Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed to 588,929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of virus-infected patients currently undergoing treatment now stands over 12,600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recoveries count reached 561,271 earlier today while the death toll moved to 15,055.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 629 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (January 04).&nbsp; This figure includes 09 individuals who had arrived in the country from overseas. Following the new development, Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed to 588,929. The number of virus-infected patients currently undergoing treatment now [&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-121754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121754","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=121754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}