{"id":108092,"date":"2020-10-27T16:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108092"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:31:44","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/27\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll climbs to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health confirms that two more Covid-19 related deaths have been reported in the country today (27), bringing the death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka to 19.<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0daf \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0db8\u0dbb\u0dab \u0dad\u0dd4\u0db1\u0d9a\u0dca... \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc4\u0dd4\u0daf\u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dcf \u0d9a\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dda...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4jDE0meCwYY?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>A 19-year-old youth and an 87-year-old woman had passed away by the time they were both admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, the Secretary to the Health Ministry has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Judicial Medical Officer subsequently conducted PCR tests on the deceased and the test results have confirmed that they were infected with novel coronavirus, he has said further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 87-year-old woman from Slave Island had been admitted to the hospital due to a foot injury while she had reportedly been treated for around a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the 19-year-old, a resident of Keselwatte, was is said to be a youth with special needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s 17th Coronavirus death was also reported earlier today (27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 41-year-old male, a resident of Ja-Ela, had passed away while receiving treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda after being admitted on October 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the patient had been ailing from Cirrhosis prior to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health confirms that two more Covid-19 related deaths have been reported in the country today (27), bringing the death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka to 19. A 19-year-old youth and an 87-year-old woman had passed away by the time they were both admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, [&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-108092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092","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=108092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}