{"id":112807,"date":"2021-03-19T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112807"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:05:58","slug":"six-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/19\/six-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Six 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 today confirmed six more COVID-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 544.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01. A 70-year-old male from Polgahawela who passed away at the Kandy General Hospital on march 18 due to Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>02. A 79-year-old woman from Suduhumpola who passed away on March 17 while being treated at the Kandy General Hospital. The cause of death I s mentioned as heart disease and Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>03. An 83-year-old woman from Wattala who had passed away at home on March 19 due to Covid-19 related complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04. A 96-year-old woman from Pitakotte who had passed away at home on March 14 due to Covid-19 related complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>05. A 72-year-old male from Ganemulla who had passed away at home on February 18 due to Covid-19 related complications, high blood sugar and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>06. A 73-eyar-old woman from Shilawathura who had passed away at home on March 10 due to Covid-19 related complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed six more COVID-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 544. 01. A 70-year-old male from Polgahawela who passed away at the Kandy General Hospital on march 18 due to Covid-19 pneumonia. 02. A 79-year-old woman from Suduhumpola [&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-112807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112807","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=112807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}