{"id":110725,"date":"2021-01-16T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110725"},"modified":"2021-01-16T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:30:55","slug":"sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-at-256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/16\/sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-at-256\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus death toll at 256"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count to 256 cases, the Director-General of Health Services stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased is an 82-year-old woman residing in the Ethulkotte area, the Department of Government Information confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had passed away today (January 16) at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID\/IDH) in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had been transferred there from the Colombo National Hospital upon being identified as a COVID-19 patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of her death has been determined as a heart condition exacerbated due to COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count to 256 cases, the Director-General of Health Services stated. The deceased is an 82-year-old woman residing in the Ethulkotte area, the Department of Government Information confirmed. She had passed away today (January 16) at the National Institute of Infectious [&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-110725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110725","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=110725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}