{"id":123455,"date":"2022-03-13T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123455"},"modified":"2022-03-13T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T22:17:27","slug":"daily-covid-19-cases-count-at-311-today-and-seven-more-covid-19-deaths-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/13\/daily-covid-19-cases-count-at-311-today-and-seven-more-covid-19-deaths-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Covid-19 cases count at 311 today and Seven more Covid-19 deaths confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 311 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 656,041.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, 618,886 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 20,758. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus-related deaths for March 12, pushing the country\u2019s Covid-19 death toll to 16,397.<\/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>All seven victims are reportedly in the age group of 60 years and above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 311 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 656,041.&nbsp; According to official figures, 618,886 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-123455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123455","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=123455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}