{"id":122420,"date":"2022-01-27T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122420"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T00:38:06","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-tally-crosses-900-for-second-straight-day-and-record-23-new-deaths-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/27\/daily-covid-19-cases-tally-crosses-900-for-second-straight-day-and-record-23-new-deaths-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases tally crosses 900 for second straight day and record 23 new deaths 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 942 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 27).&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 thereby climbed to 607,104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 14,705. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second consecutive day Sri Lanka recorded more than 900 daily cases of Covid-19 in about four months. Over the past week, 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 23 new coronavirus-related deaths for January 26, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 12 males and 11 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years. Another one is aged below 30 years and the remaining 20 patients are aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 942 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 27).&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 thereby climbed to 607,104. 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-122420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122420","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=122420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}