{"id":109877,"date":"2020-12-19T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109877"},"modified":"2020-12-19T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T23:52:31","slug":"six-more-covid-19-deaths-push-tally-to-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/19\/six-more-covid-19-deaths-push-tally-to-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Six more COVID-19 deaths push tally to 171"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Six more COVID-19 deaths pushed the coronavirus fatality count in Sri Lanka to 171, the Department of Government Information confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 39-year-old woman from Colombo 14 has passed away today (19) at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda after being transferred from the Colombo National Hospital upon diagnosis as a COVID-19 patient. The cause of her death has been determined as blood poisoning, multi-organ dysfunction, and COVID-19 related pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Weeragula resident \u2013 a 68-year-old male \u2013 has succumbed to a chest infection yesterday (18) upon admittance to the Wathupitiwala Base Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another male, aged 77 years and a resident of Colombo 15, passed away from high blood pressure, diabetes, and COVID-19 related pneumonia. He had passed away on December 17 upon admittance to Colombo National Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 76-year-old male has also died upon admittance to Colombo National Hospital on December 17. The cause of death is recorded as COVID-19 related pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, an 86 year old female resident of the Kiriwattuduwa area has succumbed to a cardiac arrest caused by high blood pressure and a chest infection caused by COVID-19. She had passed away at her home yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A female resident of Bandaragama, aged 83 years, has also passed away at her residence yesterday. The cause of her death has also been determined as a cardiac arrest caused by high blood pressure and a chest infection caused by COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Six more COVID-19 deaths pushed the coronavirus fatality count in Sri Lanka to 171, the Department of Government Information confirmed. A 39-year-old woman from Colombo 14 has passed away today (19) at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda after being transferred from the Colombo National Hospital upon diagnosis as a COVID-19 patient. [&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-109877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109877","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=109877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}