{"id":122906,"date":"2022-02-19T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122906"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:29:53","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-hits-1273-today-and-confirms-20-new-covid-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/19\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-hits-1273-today-and-confirms-20-new-covid-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count hits 1,273 today and confirms 20 new Covid-related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>he Health Ministry says that another 1,273 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, bringing the total infections registered in the country thus far to 635,606.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 596,891 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 22,746. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 20 new coronavirus-related fatalities for February 18, moving the death toll in the country from the virus to 15,969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes 12 males and 08 females, according to the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the deceased were in the age group of 30-59 years. Another one was aged below 30 years and the remaining 17 victims were aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana he Health Ministry says that another 1,273 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, bringing the total infections registered in the country thus far to 635,606.&nbsp; According to official figures, 596,891 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 22,746. Meanwhile, 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-122906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122906","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=122906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}