{"id":122813,"date":"2022-02-16T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122813"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:55:55","slug":"sri-lanka-identifies-1217-new-covid-cases-and-death-toll-moves-up-with-25-new-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/16\/sri-lanka-identifies-1217-new-covid-cases-and-death-toll-moves-up-with-25-new-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka identifies 1,217 new Covid cases and death toll moves up with 25 new victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 1,217 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 631,816.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 596,042 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 19,875. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 25 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 15, moving the death toll in the country from the virus to 15,899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 20 males and 05 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the deceased were in the age group of 30-59 years. The remaining 19 victims were aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,217 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 631,816.&nbsp; According to official figures, 596,042 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-122813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122813","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=122813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}