{"id":113359,"date":"2021-04-08T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113359"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:24:37","slug":"two-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/08\/two-more-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-sri-lanka-2\/","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 has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths today while this brings the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 593.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the deceased is a 70-year-old male from Dehiwala who had been transferred from the South Colombo Teaching Hospital to IDH after being diagnosed as Covid-19 positive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had passed away on April 08 due to acute heart disease, septic shock, high blood pressure and Covid-19 pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other victim is a 79-year-old woman from Kondavil who had passed away at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital on April 08 while receiving treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of death is mentioned as Urosepsis with acute kidney injury on chronic kidney disease complicated with COVID\u201319, Pneumonia, Urinary Tract Infection and Diabetes Mellitus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths today while this brings the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 593. One of the deceased is a 70-year-old male from Dehiwala who had been transferred from the South Colombo Teaching Hospital to IDH after being [&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-113359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113359","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=113359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}