{"id":122557,"date":"2022-02-05T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122557"},"modified":"2022-02-05T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T21:24:59","slug":"daily-cases-of-covid-19-in-sri-lanka-hit-1287-today-and-records-28-new-coronavirus-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/05\/daily-cases-of-covid-19-in-sri-lanka-hit-1287-today-and-records-28-new-coronavirus-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily cases of Covid-19 in Sri Lanka hit 1,287 today and records 28 new coronavirus-related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health says that another 1,287 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (February 05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 617,189.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dd6\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dab \u0d91\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dad\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba \u0db1\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0d94\u0db6\u0da7 \u0dad\u0dc4\u0db1\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgNHlEG0I78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 580,770 positive cases have recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 20,847. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,572.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the seventh 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 28 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 05, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,572.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 20 males and 08 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the deceased were in the age group of 30-59 years. Two others were aged below 30 years and the remaining 21 victims were aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 1,287 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (February 05). Sri Lanka\u2019s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 617,189. According to official figures, 580,770 positive cases have recovered. With the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are [&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-122557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122557","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=122557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}