{"id":122493,"date":"2022-01-31T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122493"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:38:30","slug":"daily-covid-cases-surpass-1000-for-second-consecutive-day-and-death-toll-moves-up-with-21-new-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/31\/daily-covid-cases-surpass-1000-for-second-consecutive-day-and-death-toll-moves-up-with-21-new-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily COVID cases surpass 1,000 for second consecutive day and death toll moves up with 21 new fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 1,082 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 31).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 06 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 611,185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 17,312. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 21 new coronavirus-related deaths for January 30, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 11 males and 10 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the victims are in the age group of 30-59 years. Two others are s aged below 30 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 1,082 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 31).&nbsp; This figure includes 06 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 611,185. 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-122493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493","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=122493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}