{"id":122838,"date":"2022-02-17T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122838"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:15:21","slug":"covid-19-sri-lanka-reports-1235-new-cases-and-records-27-new-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/17\/covid-19-sri-lanka-reports-1235-new-cases-and-records-27-new-covid-19-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Sri Lanka reports 1,235 new cases and records 27 new Covid-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 1,235 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered within the country thus far to 633,051.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile over 20,000 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment island-wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 27 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 15, moving the death toll in the country from the virus to 15,926.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 17 males and 10 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight 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 1,235 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (17). This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered within the country thus far to 633,051. Meanwhile over 20,000 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment island-wide.\u00a0 The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 27 [&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-122838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122838","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=122838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}