{"id":122776,"date":"2022-02-14T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122776"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:28:29","slug":"covid-19-sri-lanka-reports-1231-new-cases-and-confirms-another-36-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/14\/covid-19-sri-lanka-reports-1231-new-cases-and-confirms-another-36-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Sri Lanka reports 1,231 new cases and confirms another 36 coronavirus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 1,231 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka within today (14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the country\u2019s official Coronavirus caseload thus far to 629,347 while presently a total of 18,158 patients infected with the virus are under medical care.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 36 coronavirus related deaths for February 13, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,844.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today includes 20 males and 16 females, according to the figures released by the Government Information Department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the victims are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 30 are abed 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,231 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka within today (14). This brings the country\u2019s official Coronavirus caseload thus far to 629,347 while presently a total of 18,158 patients infected with the virus are under medical care.\u00a0 The Director General of Health Services has confirmed [&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-122776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122776","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=122776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}