{"id":122057,"date":"2022-01-12T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122057"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:29:47","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-climbs-to-653-and-records-14-more-covid-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/12\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-climbs-to-653-and-records-14-more-covid-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count climbs to 653 and records 14 more COVID-related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 653 today (January 12), the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 02 individuals who recently arrived on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 593,725.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 567,519 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 11,000 active cases in total are currently under medical care and the death toll stands at 15,163, official figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 14 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 11, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,163.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the official figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 07 males and 07 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the patients are between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining 11 are in the age group of 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 653 today (January 12), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 02 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in [&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-122057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122057","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=122057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}