{"id":108785,"date":"2020-11-18T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108785"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:06:24","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-rises-to-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/18\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-rises-to-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 death toll rises to 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has reported three more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic today (18), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the total number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the country has hiked to 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased is a 70-year-old male residing in Kandana. He had passed away at his residence. The cause of death has been identified as the complication of diabetes condition due to COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman, aged 74 years from Colombo 12, has succumbed to high blood pressure, diabetes, and weakness in the lungs caused by COVID-19. She had been receiving treatment at the Homagama Base Hospital upon being identified as virus-positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A resident of Colombo 13, a male aged 48 years, has also passed away at his home from complications of a diabetes condition due to the coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported three more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic today (18), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed a short while ago. Accordingly, the total number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the country has hiked to 69. One of the deceased is a 70-year-old male residing in Kandana. He had passed away [&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-108785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108785","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=108785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}