{"id":102802,"date":"2020-05-25T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102802"},"modified":"2020-05-25T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:15:18","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-10th-death-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/25\/sri-lanka-confirms-10th-death-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 10th death from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka reported its tenth death from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a short while ago, confirmed Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A female who had arrived from Kuwait and had been undergoing quarantine at the Trincomalee quarantine center has succumbed to the virus in this manner.<\/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=\"\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dda\u0da7\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dab\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dba\u0dba\u0dd2...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLszn-wmj3w?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>The 52-year-old deceased woman had been suffering from heart conditions prior to death, the Director-General said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly the total number of deaths reported in the country due to COVID-19 has now reached 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the total count of coronavirus cases reported in the country is at 1,162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 458 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the country, as per the Epidemiology Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 695&nbsp;COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital upon complete recovery from the illness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reported its tenth death from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a short while ago, confirmed Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. A female who had arrived from Kuwait and had been undergoing quarantine at the Trincomalee quarantine center has succumbed to the virus in this manner. The 52-year-old deceased woman [&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-102802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102802","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=102802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}