{"id":122140,"date":"2022-01-15T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122140"},"modified":"2022-01-15T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:42:02","slug":"covid-661-new-infections-and-07-new-covid-fatalities-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/15\/covid-661-new-infections-and-07-new-covid-fatalities-confirmed-in-sri-lanka-today\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 661 new infections  and  07 new COVID fatalities confirmed in Sri Lanka today"},"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 661 today (January 15), 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 595,657.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 568,049 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 12,400 active cases in total are currently under medical care and the death toll stands at 15,197, official figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 07 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 14, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the official figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 06 males and 01 female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the patients is between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining six 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 661 today (January 15), 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":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122140","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=122140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}