{"id":123107,"date":"2022-02-28T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123107"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:18:47","slug":"996-new-cases-of-coronavirus-diagnosed-in-sri-lanka-and-confirms-another-32-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/28\/996-new-cases-of-coronavirus-diagnosed-in-sri-lanka-and-confirms-another-32-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"996 new cases of coronavirus diagnosed in Sri Lanka and confirms another 32 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 996 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (Feb. 28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 detected int eh country to 646,033.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 20,888 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 32 coronavirus related deaths for February 27, pushing the country\u2019s official Covid-19 death toll to 16,222.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 16 males and 16 females while two of them are below the age of 30 years. Six victims are between the ages 30-59 while the other 24 are aged 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 996 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (Feb. 28). This brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 detected int eh country to 646,033. Approximately 20,888 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island.\u00a0 The Director General of Health Services [&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-123107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123107","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=123107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}