{"id":122201,"date":"2022-01-18T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122201"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:30:55","slug":"sri-lanka-records-672-new-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-and-death-toll-goes-up-with-13-new-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/18\/sri-lanka-records-672-new-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-and-death-toll-goes-up-with-13-new-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 672 new cases of novel coronavirus and death toll goes up with 13 new victims"},"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 672 today (January 18), the Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 05 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas.<\/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 597,707.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 568,506 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 13,900 active cases in total are currently under medical care and the death toll stands at 15,231, official figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 13 coronavirus-related deaths for January 16, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,231.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 08 males and 05 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years. The remaining 11 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 672 today (January 18), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 05 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus [&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-122201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122201","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=122201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}