{"id":123156,"date":"2022-03-02T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123156"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:52:39","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-reaches-751-today-and-confirms-23-more-coronavirus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/02\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-reaches-751-today-and-confirms-23-more-coronavirus-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count reaches 751 today and confirms 23 more 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 751 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 647,699.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 609,292 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 22,140. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,267.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 23 coronavirus related deaths for March 01, pushing the country\u2019s Covid-19 death toll to 16,267.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths confirmed today include 15 males and 08 females while one of the victims is a youth below the age of 30 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six patients are between the ages 30-59 years while the remaining 16 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 751 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 647,699.&nbsp; According to official figures, 609,292 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-123156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156","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=123156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}