{"id":109599,"date":"2020-12-11T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109599"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:35:08","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-hits-147-with-another-fatality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/11\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-hits-147-with-another-fatality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll hits 147 with another fatality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another Covid-19 related fatality has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, says the Director-General of Health Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New development brings the total deaths from coronavirus registered in the country to 147.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim has been identified as an 82-year-old woman living in Colombo 13 area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was transferred to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital after testing positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, she passed away on Thursday (10) while receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of death was cited as high blood pressure and Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another Covid-19 related fatality has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, says the Director-General of Health Services. New development brings the total deaths from coronavirus registered in the country to 147. The victim has been identified as an 82-year-old woman living in Colombo 13 area. She was transferred to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital after [&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-109599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109599","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=109599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}