{"id":122361,"date":"2022-01-24T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122361"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:16:19","slug":"daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-877-and-reports-another-14-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/24\/daily-count-of-new-covid-19-cases-climbs-to-877-and-reports-another-14-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily count of new Covid-19 cases climbs to 877 and reports another 14 coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 877 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (24).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 08 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 602,763 with this while 11,126 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile this is the sixth straight day that the daily count of Covid-19 cases has surpassed the 800-mark in the island, showing a resurgence of Covid positive cases reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 14 coronavirus related deaths in Sri Lanka, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 15,313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 08 males and 06 females while one of the Covid victims is a female below the age of 30 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven of the patients are between the ages 30-59 years while the other 06 are aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 877 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (24).&nbsp; This figure includes 08 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp; Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 602,763 with this while 11,126 patients infected with the virus [&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-122361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122361","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=122361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}