{"id":109392,"date":"2020-12-06T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109392"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:10:45","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/06\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-140\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll climbs to 140"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more Covid-19 related deaths today, increasing the death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka to 140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased is a 98-year-old male from Kotte who was admitted to the Homagama Base Hospital after being identified as a coronavirus patient. He had passed away today (06) while the cause of death is cited as pneumonia caused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An 80-year-old male from Kahathuduwa had passed away at the Homagama Base Hospital on Saturday (05). The cause of death is reported as lung failure along with Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other victim is 71-year-old male from Maggona who also passed away on Saturday (05) while being treated at the ICU of the Homagama Base Hospital. Cause of death is pneumonia caused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more Covid-19 related deaths today, increasing the death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka to 140. One of the deceased is a 98-year-old male from Kotte who was admitted to the Homagama Base Hospital after being identified as a coronavirus patient. He had [&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-109392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109392","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=109392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}