{"id":109249,"date":"2020-12-01T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109249"},"modified":"2020-12-01T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:17:22","slug":"sri-lanka-confirms-04-more-fatalities-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/01\/sri-lanka-confirms-04-more-fatalities-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka confirms 04 more fatalities from Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll escalated to 122 today (December 01), the Director-General of Health Services announced a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development came after the confirmation of 04 virus-related fatalities from Kolonnawa, Rajagiriya, Colombo 10 and Colombo 12 areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The details of the victims are as follows:<\/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\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dad\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0db8\u0dbb\u0dab 04 \u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jw19ylKM-V4?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 74-year-old male who was residing in Colombo 12 has passed away at his home on Sunday (29). The cause of death was cited as shock lethal caused by a germ infection while he was positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman from Rajagiriya, aged 93, has died of Covid-19 infection, blood poisoning and skin infection. This fatality has been recorded as home death. Reports revealed that she died on the 28th of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, another 74-year-old fell victim to the virus on Sunday (29). This woman, who was residing in Kolonnawa area, had died of brain hemorrhage and Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another male, an 81-year-old from Colombo 10 area, has died on Monday (30). He had been transferred from a private hospital to Mulleriyawa Base Hospital, after testing positive for the virus. The cause of death was determined as a chronic lung disease exacerbated by Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll escalated to 122 today (December 01), the Director-General of Health Services announced a short while ago. The new development came after the confirmation of 04 virus-related fatalities from Kolonnawa, Rajagiriya, Colombo 10 and Colombo 12 areas. The details of the victims are as follows: A 74-year-old male who [&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-109249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109249","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=109249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}