{"id":112048,"date":"2021-02-25T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112048"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:52:40","slug":"two-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/25\/two-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more Covid-19 deaths reported in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director General of Health Services on Thursday confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths, increasing Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 459.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased is a 62-year-old woman from Kadawatha who had passed away on February 21 while being treated at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital. The Cause of death is mentioned as a heart disease and complicated diabetes with Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other victim is an 83-year-old woman from Wattala. She had been disgnosed as Covid-19 positive at the Kiribathgoda Base Hospital and transferred to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital, where she passed away on February 25. The cause of<br>death is reported as Covid-19 pneumonia and bacterial infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services on Thursday confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths, increasing Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to the virus to 459. One of the deceased is a 62-year-old woman from Kadawatha who had passed away on February 21 while being treated at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital. The Cause [&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-112048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112048","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=112048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}