{"id":128206,"date":"2022-08-28T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128206"},"modified":"2022-08-28T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:31:11","slug":"covid-19-sri-lanka-confirms-two-more-deaths-56-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/28\/covid-19-sri-lanka-confirms-two-more-deaths-56-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Sri Lanka confirms two more deaths, 56 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 two Covid-19 related deaths for yesterday (Aug. 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both deceased are males above the age of 60 years, according to the Government Information Department.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile 56 new cases of coronavirus have been detected within today (28), increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country to 669,749.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another two Covid-19 related deaths for yesterday (Aug. 27). Both deceased are males above the age of 60 years, according to the Government Information Department.&nbsp; Meanwhile 56 new cases of coronavirus have been detected within today (28), increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128206","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=128206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}