{"id":127763,"date":"2022-08-10T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127763"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T23:52:28","slug":"covid-nine-more-deaths-227-new-cases-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/10\/covid-nine-more-deaths-227-new-cases-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: Nine more deaths &#038; 227 new cases reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health Services confirmed 06 new coronavirus-related deaths for August 09. This brings the country\u2019s death toll from the pandemic to 16,603.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deaths reported today include 04 males and 05 females above the age of 60 years, according to the figures released by the Department of Government Information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 227 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today, as the tally of Covid-19 cases detected in the country thus far to 667,385.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services confirmed 06 new coronavirus-related deaths for August 09. This brings the country\u2019s death toll from the pandemic to 16,603. The deaths reported today include 04 males and 05 females above the age of 60 years, according to the figures released by the Department of Government Information.&nbsp; Meanwhile, 227 more [&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-127763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127763","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=127763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}