{"id":122670,"date":"2022-02-10T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122670"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:53:40","slug":"1297-new-cases-of-covid-19-detected-and-confirms-31-more-covid-19-deaths-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/10\/1297-new-cases-of-covid-19-detected-and-confirms-31-more-covid-19-deaths-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"1,297 new cases of Covid-19 detected and confirms 31 more 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 1,297 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in the country today (10), as the daily count of fresh cases continues to rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 624,545 while presently approximately 14,847 patients infected with the virus are undergoing treatment island-wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 31 coronavirus related deaths for February 09, pushing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,723.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fatalities reported today includes 16 males and 15 females, according to the figures released by the Government Information Department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the victims are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 26 are in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile this also brings the Covid-19 deaths reported in the country within the last three days to over 100. Sri Lanka had confirmed 36 deaths for February 08 and 35 for February 07.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 1,297 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in the country today (10), as the daily count of fresh cases continues to rise. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 624,545 while presently approximately 14,847 patients infected with the virus [&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-122670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122670","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=122670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}