{"id":123022,"date":"2022-02-25T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123022"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:37:24","slug":"sri-lanka-records-1286-new-positive-cases-of-covid-19-and-covid-death-toll-moves-up-with-26-new-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/25\/sri-lanka-records-1286-new-positive-cases-of-covid-19-and-covid-death-toll-moves-up-with-26-new-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 1,286 new positive cases of Covid-19 and Covid death toll moves up with 26 new fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 1,286 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 643,072.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 608,226 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 18,704. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,142.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 26 coronavirus-related deaths for February 24, pushing the country\u2019s death toll from the pandemic to 16,142.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 13 males and 13 females, according to the figures released by the Department of Govt. Information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six of the victims are between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining 20 are in the age group of 60 years and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,286 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 643,072.&nbsp; According to official figures, 608,226 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-123022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123022","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=123022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}