{"id":122521,"date":"2022-02-04T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122521"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:05:21","slug":"sri-lankas-daily-covid-cases-cross-1000-for-the-sixth-consecutive-day-and-29-more-patients-succumb-to-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/04\/sri-lankas-daily-covid-cases-cross-1000-for-the-sixth-consecutive-day-and-29-more-patients-succumb-to-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s daily COVID cases cross 1,000 for the sixth consecutive day and 29 more patients succumb to infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 1,243 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (February 04).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 615,902.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 20,138. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,544.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sixth consecutive day Sri Lanka recorded more than 1,000 daily cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 29 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 03, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,544.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 17 males and 12 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four of the victims were in the age group of 30-59 years. The remaining 25 virus-infected people were aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 1,243 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (February 04). Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 615,902. With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 20,138. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at [&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-122521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122521","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=122521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}