{"id":100900,"date":"2020-04-08T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100900"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:40:38","slug":"covid-19-death-toll-in-sri-lanka-rises-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/08\/covid-19-death-toll-in-sri-lanka-rises-to-7\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Death toll in Sri Lanka rises to 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another COVID-19 death confirmed in Sri Lanka today (08) has brought the fatalities count to 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health said the deceased is a 44-year-old male who was being treated at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda \u0dc4\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0db8\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba \u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dad\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGm3lm6g1Pw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He is reportedly a gem businessman from Mount Lavinia, who had returned to the country following a visit to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the confirmed cases count reached 189 this evening as another patient tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry, a total number of 44 patients have completely recovered from the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another COVID-19 death confirmed in Sri Lanka today (08) has brought the fatalities count to 7. The Ministry of Health said the deceased is a 44-year-old male who was being treated at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Angoda. He is reportedly a gem businessman from Mount Lavinia, who had returned to the country [&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-100900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100900","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=100900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}