{"id":109573,"date":"2020-12-10T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109573"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T22:12:01","slug":"two-more-covid-19-deaths-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/10\/two-more-covid-19-deaths-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more Covid-19 deaths confirmed"},"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 two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased is a 66-year-old woman from Colombo 02 who had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital after being identified as Covid-19 positive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had passed away at the Homagama Hospital today (10) while the cause of death is cited as heart failure due to Covid 19 virus infection..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other is a 54-year-old woman, who is a resident of Weligama. She had recently returned from Dubai and had been transferred to the Homagama Base Hospital from a quarantine center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had passed away today while receiving treatment in the ICU of the hospital and the cause of death is exacerbation of kidney decease due to Covid-19 virus infection and&nbsp; Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 146. One of the deceased is a 66-year-old woman from Colombo 02 who had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Homagama Base [&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-109573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573","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=109573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}