{"id":108527,"date":"2020-11-11T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108527"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:18:16","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-46th-covid-19-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/11\/sri-lanka-confirms-46th-covid-19-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 46th COVID-19 death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Director General of Health Services has confirmed another COVID-19 death, bringing the death toll from the virus to 46 in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 63-year-old male from Imbulgoda has passed away while receiving treatment at the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PCR test carried out at post mortem has confirmed that he was infected with COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exacerbation of leukemia and a complication of the respiratory system are mentioned as the immediate causes of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has defined this as a death caused by COVID-19 infection and, accordingly this is the 46th death of a Covid-19 infected patient in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also the fifth Covid-19 death reported within today (11).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Director General of Health Services has confirmed another COVID-19 death, bringing the death toll from the virus to 46 in the country.&nbsp; A 63-year-old male from Imbulgoda has passed away while receiving treatment at the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital.&nbsp; The PCR test carried out at post mortem has confirmed that he was [&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-108527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108527","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=108527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}