{"id":121943,"date":"2022-01-09T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121943"},"modified":"2022-01-09T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:05:10","slug":"436-persons-test-positive-for-covid-19-today-and-confirms-another-07-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/09\/436-persons-test-positive-for-covid-19-today-and-confirms-another-07-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"436 persons test positive for Covid-19 today and confirms another 07 coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry reported that 436 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within today (09).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 06 persons who have arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus caseload thus far to 591,667 while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment across the island is 9,478.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus related deaths for January 08, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 15,119.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths confirmed today include 04 males and 03 females while one of the victims is between the ages 30-59 years. The other 06 are aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that 436 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within today (09). This figure includes 06 persons who have arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections.&nbsp; This brings Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus caseload thus far to 591,667 while the number of infected [&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-121943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121943","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=121943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}