{"id":122344,"date":"2022-01-23T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122344"},"modified":"2022-01-23T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:18:08","slug":"daily-covid-cases-exceed-800-for-fifth-straight-day-and-fifteen-more-people-succumb-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/23\/daily-covid-cases-exceed-800-for-fifth-straight-day-and-fifteen-more-people-succumb-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID cases exceed 800 for fifth straight day and Fifteen more people succumb to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the fifth consecutive day as 838 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 01 individual 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 601,886.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 576,114 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 15 coronavirus-related deaths for January 22, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,299.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 09 males and 06 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the victims is aged below 30 years, and 05 others are in the age group of 30-59 years. The remaining 09 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 10,473 active cases in total are currently under medical care and 15,299 in total have succumbed to the virus infection, official figures showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Meanwhile, the count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the fifth consecutive day as 838 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 23). According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 01 individual who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has [&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-122344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122344","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=122344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}