{"id":110328,"date":"2021-01-03T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110328"},"modified":"2021-01-03T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:09:13","slug":"sri-lanka-reports-two-more-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/03\/sri-lanka-reports-two-more-covid-19-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka reports two more COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic went up with two more deaths caused by the virus being reported, the Department of Government Information stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed that two females aged 57 and 76 years have succumbed to the virus in this manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 57-year-old woman had succumbed to a severe chest infection and COVID-19 pneumonia. The Welipenna resident had been transferred from the Kalutara General Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital where she passed away today (January 03).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 76-year-old woman too had died at the Homagama Base Hospital. She had been transferred to the Homagama hospital upon being identified as a COVID-19 patient at the Colombo National Hospital. She had died today from COVID-19 pneumonia, heart conditions, and epilepsy. She had been a resident of Colombo 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the total count of fatalities in Sri Lanka from the COVID-19 pandemic is at 213 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic went up with two more deaths caused by the virus being reported, the Department of Government Information stated. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed that two females aged 57 and 76 years have succumbed to the virus in this manner. The 57-year-old woman 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-110328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110328","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=110328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}