{"id":122084,"date":"2022-01-13T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122084"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:22:06","slug":"daily-covid-caseload-moves-up-with-594-new-infections-and-records-11-new-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/13\/daily-covid-caseload-moves-up-with-594-new-infections-and-records-11-new-covid-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID caseload moves up with 594 new infections and records 11 new COVID deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em> Courtesy Adaderana <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 594 today (January 13), the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 04 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 594,319.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 567,700 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 11,400 active cases in total are currently under medical care and the death toll stands at 15,174, official figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 11 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 12, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,174.<\/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 04 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the patients are between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining 08 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 594 today (January 13), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 04 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122084","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=122084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}