{"id":122695,"date":"2022-02-11T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122695"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:58:05","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-reaches-1259-today-and-confirms-31-new-deaths-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/11\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-reaches-1259-today-and-confirms-31-new-deaths-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count reaches 1,259 today and confirms 31 new deaths from Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 1,259 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 624,545.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 594,348 positive cases have recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 14,474. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,723.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 31 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 10, moving the death toll in the country from the virus to 15,754.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 18 males and 13 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. The remaining 26 victims were aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,259 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 624,545.&nbsp; According to official figures, 594,348 positive cases have recovered. Following the [&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-122695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122695","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=122695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}