{"id":121835,"date":"2022-01-06T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121835"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:20:22","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-case-total-tops-59000-and-18-new-covid-deaths-for-january-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/06\/sri-lankas-covid-19-case-total-tops-59000-and-18-new-covid-deaths-for-january-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 case total tops 59,000 and 18 new COVID deaths for January 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health reports that another 584 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (06), as the country\u2019s tally of confirmed cases crossed the 59,000-mark on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 12 persons who had arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands 590,063 with this while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment is 13,423<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 18 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 04, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,065.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 12 males and 06 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the patients are between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining 13 are in the age group of 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 584 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (06), as the country\u2019s tally of confirmed cases crossed the 59,000-mark on Thursday. This figure includes 12 persons who had arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases.&nbsp; The total number of Covid-19 cases registered [&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-121835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835","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=121835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}