{"id":112899,"date":"2021-03-22T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112899"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:40:14","slug":"five-more-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/22\/five-more-covid-19-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Five more COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Department of Government Information, all 05 victims are male patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 551 in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01. The deceased is a 78-year-old male resident from Weuda. He died on 21.03.2021 while undergoing treatments at Kurunegala Teaching Hospital. The cause of death is mentioned as Covid-19 infection, heart failure, acute diabetes, and kidney disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>02. The deceased is a 78-year-old male resident from Nugathalawa. He was transferred from Welimada Base Hospital to Base Hospital Theldeniya where he died on 22.03.2021. The cause of death is mentioned as acute Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>03. The deceased is a 68-year-old male resident from Kadawaha. He died on 22.03.2021 while undergoing treatments at Minuwangoda Base Hospital. The cause of death is mentioned as a shock due to blood poisoning, heart disease, high blood pressure, and asthma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04. The deceased is a 51-year-old male resident from Bandaragama. He was transferred from&nbsp; Colombo South Teaching Hospital to Homagama Base Hospital where he died on&nbsp; 22.03.2021. The cause of death is mentioned as liver infection and Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>05. The deceased is an 80-year-old male resident from Galle. He died on 16.03.2021 while undergoing treatments at Karapitiya Teaching Hospital. The cause of death is mentioned as acute pneumonia and Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 22). As per the Department of Government Information, all 05 victims are male patients. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 551 in total. 01. The deceased is a [&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-112899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112899","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=112899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}