{"id":127598,"date":"2022-08-03T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127598"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:56:54","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-122-new-covid-19-cases-and-08-more-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/03\/sri-lanka-confirms-122-new-covid-19-cases-and-08-more-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 122 new Covid-19 cases and 08 more deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Health Ministry says that another 122 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 666,086.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 08 new coronavirus-related deaths for August 02, pushing the country\u2019s death toll from the pandemic to 16,574.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 07 males and one female, according to the figures released by the Department of Government Information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The female victim and three of the male victims were above the age of 60 years. The remaining four were aged between 30-59 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 122 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 666,086.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 08 new coronavirus-related deaths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127598","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=127598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}