{"id":110823,"date":"2021-01-20T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110823"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:46:36","slug":"sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-hikes-to-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/20\/sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-hikes-to-274\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus death toll hikes to 274"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another individual has fallen victim to the deadly novel coronavirus today (January 20), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased is a 53-year-old female residing in the Mallawagedara area in Negombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon being diagnosed as a COVID-19 patient, she had been transferred from the Negombo District Hospital to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, she had succumbed to the disease today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of her death has been determined as acute diabetes and blood poisoning caused by coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the total count of fatalities Sri Lanka has witnessed due to COVID-19 is 274.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Another individual has fallen victim to the deadly novel coronavirus today (January 20), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. The deceased is a 53-year-old female residing in the Mallawagedara area in Negombo. Upon being diagnosed as a COVID-19 patient, she had been transferred from the Negombo District Hospital to the Infectious Diseases Hospital [&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-110823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110823","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=110823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}