{"id":123585,"date":"2022-03-17T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123585"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:29:00","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-03-more-covid-19-deaths-301-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/17\/sri-lanka-confirms-03-more-covid-19-deaths-301-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 03 more Covid-19 deaths, 301 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another three coronavirus related deaths for March 16, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 16,419.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This figure includes two males and one female patient while all three deceased are over the age of 60 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the Health Ministry says that another 301 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the tally of confirmed cases registered in the country to 657,435.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another three coronavirus related deaths for March 16, pushing the country\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 16,419.&nbsp; This figure includes two males and one female patient while all three deceased are over the age of 60 years.&nbsp; Meanwhile the Health Ministry says that [&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-123585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123585","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=123585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}