{"id":105785,"date":"2020-08-23T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105785"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T21:44:02","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-12th-covid-19-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/23\/sri-lanka-confirms-12th-covid-19-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 12th COVID-19 death"},"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 Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 47-year-old female from Mawathagama, Weuda, who had recently arrived from India 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=\"\u0db8\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0da7 12 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0db8\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0dda \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9a\u0da7\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd4 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dda...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCV7XdpdKok?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>Upon being tested positive for COVID-19 she had been treated at the Iranawila Treatment Center before being transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda last night (22) for further treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry, the deceased lady had been diagnosed with cancer and heart ailments in addition to the COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly the total number of deaths reported in the country due to COVID-19 has now reached 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the total count of coronavirus cases reported in the country is at 2,947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 137 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 2,798 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 Ministry of Health. A 47-year-old female from Mawathagama, Weuda, who had recently arrived from India has succumbed to the virus in this manner. Upon being tested positive for COVID-19 she had been treated at the Iranawila Treatment [&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-105785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105785","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=105785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}