{"id":122279,"date":"2022-01-21T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122279"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:42:16","slug":"daily-covid-cases-count-crosses-800-for-third-straight-day-and-records-17-new-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/21\/daily-covid-cases-count-crosses-800-for-third-straight-day-and-records-17-new-covid-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID cases count crosses 800 for third straight day and records 17 new COVID deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the third consecutive day as 840 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 06 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 600,203.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 569,043 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 15,800 active cases in total are currently under medical care and the death toll stands at 15,272, official figures showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 17 coronavirus-related deaths for January 20, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 13 males and 04 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years. Another one is aged below 30 years and the remaining 10 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the third consecutive day as 840 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 21). According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 06 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought [&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-122279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122279","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=122279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}