{"id":122379,"date":"2022-01-25T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122379"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T23:22:50","slug":"daily-covid-cases-tally-tops-800-for-seventh-straight-day-and-records-17-new-fatalities-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/25\/daily-covid-cases-tally-tops-800-for-seventh-straight-day-and-records-17-new-fatalities-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID cases tally tops 800 for seventh straight day and records 17 new fatalities from Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 891 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 25).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 03 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 603,654 with this while 11,784 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, this is the seventh 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 17 coronavirus-related deaths for January 24, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,330.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 12 males and 05 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years and the remaining 14 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 891 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 25).&nbsp; This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp; Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 603,654 with this while 11,784 patients infected with the [&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-122379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122379","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=122379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}