{"id":122260,"date":"2022-01-20T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122260"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:11:30","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-over-800-daily-covid-cases-for-second-straight-day-and-confirms-12-more-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/20\/sri-lanka-reports-over-800-daily-covid-cases-for-second-straight-day-and-confirms-12-more-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports over 800 daily COVID cases for second straight day and confirms 12 more coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>he Health Ministry reported that 827 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (20), as the daily count of new Covid-19 cases surpasses the 800-mark for the second consecutive day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new coronavirus cases detected today includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country jumps to 599,363 with this while over 15,000 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 12 coronavirus related deaths for January 19, pushing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,255.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 08 males and 04 females while one of the female victims is below the age of 30 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years while and the other nine are aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana he Health Ministry reported that 827 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (20), as the daily count of new Covid-19 cases surpasses the 800-mark for the second consecutive day.&nbsp; The new coronavirus cases detected today includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp; The total number of Covid-19 cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122260","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=122260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}