{"id":123404,"date":"2022-03-11T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123404"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:30:03","slug":"sri-lanka-detects-467-fresh-cases-of-covid-19-and-seven-more-covid-related-fatalities-added-to-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/11\/sri-lanka-detects-467-fresh-cases-of-covid-19-and-seven-more-covid-related-fatalities-added-to-death-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka detects 467 fresh cases of Covid-19 and Seven more Covid-related fatalities added to death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 467 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 655,383.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 618,697 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 20,305. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,381<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus-related deaths for March 11, pushing the country\u2019s Covid-19 death toll to 16,381.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes 05 males and 02 females, according to the Department of Government Information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased patients is between the ages 30-59 years and the remaining 06 are in the age group of 60 years and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 467 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 655,383.&nbsp; According to official figures, 618,697 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-123404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123404","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=123404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}