{"id":122395,"date":"2022-01-26T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122395"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:37:56","slug":"daily-covid-cases-count-tops-900-and-confirms-16-new-covid-19-deaths-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/26\/daily-covid-cases-count-tops-900-and-confirms-16-new-covid-19-deaths-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID cases count tops 900 and confirms 16 new  Covid-19 deaths in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 927 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 26).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 05 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 thereby climbed to 604,581.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 12,454. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time Sri Lanka recorded more than 900 daily cases of Covid-19 in about four months. For the past seven days, the country saw a resurgence in infections with over 800 people testing positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 16 new coronavirus-related deaths for January 25, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 08 males and 08 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years and the remaining 12 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 927 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 26).&nbsp; This figure includes 05 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.&nbsp; Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 604,581. With this, the number of virus-infected people [&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-122395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122395","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=122395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}