{"id":109544,"date":"2020-12-09T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109544"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:34:32","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/09\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to144\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll climbs to144"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Director-General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, says the Department of Government Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New development has brought Sri Lanka\u2019s total fatalities from the virus to 144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first death is that of a 20-day-old infant from Colombo 15, who passed away yesterday (08) while receiving treatment at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo. He has suffered Covid-19 pneumonia, blood infection and multiple organ failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This death was recorded as the youngest coronavirus death in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other victim is a 62-year-old male who was living in Colombo 10 area. He had been transferred from a private hospital in Colombo to Mulleriyawa Base Hospital where he died today (09). The cause of death was cited as Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, says the Department of Government Information. New development has brought Sri Lanka\u2019s total fatalities from the virus to 144. The first death is that of a 20-day-old infant from Colombo 15, who passed away yesterday (08) while receiving treatment [&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-109544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109544","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=109544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}