{"id":110429,"date":"2021-01-06T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110429"},"modified":"2021-01-06T16:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:31:53","slug":"two-more-covid-19-deaths-bring-tally-to-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/06\/two-more-covid-19-deaths-bring-tally-to-219\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more COVID-19 deaths bring tally to 219"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two more COVID-19 related deaths reported today (January 06) has pushed Sri Lanka\u2019s fatality count from the virus to 219 cases in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Director-General of Health Services, one of the victims is a 60-year-old male from the Dehiwala area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID\/IDH) from the Colombo South Teaching Hospital in Kalubowila, upon being diagnosed as a COVID-19 patient. The cause of death has been determined to be blood poisoning, kidney infection, and COVID-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a 78-year-old female from Alawwa has succumbed to a severe diabetic condition, malfunction of heart, and a severe respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had been transferred from the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital to the Narammala District Hospital after being diagnosed with the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Two more COVID-19 related deaths reported today (January 06) has pushed Sri Lanka\u2019s fatality count from the virus to 219 cases in total. As per the Director-General of Health Services, one of the victims is a 60-year-old male from the Dehiwala area. He had been transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases [&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-110429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110429","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=110429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}