{"id":113633,"date":"2021-04-19T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113633"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T21:43:12","slug":"sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-climbs-to-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/19\/sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-climbs-to-620\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus death toll climbs to 620"},"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 <strong>two mor<\/strong>e COVID-19 related deaths increasing Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to the virus pandemic to 620.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01.&nbsp;<\/strong>58-year-old female from Mahawa who had been transferred from Galgamuwa Hospital Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital after being identified as Covid-19 positive. She had passed away on April 17 while the cause of death is mentioned as Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome due to COVID Pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>02.&nbsp;<\/strong>84-year-old male from Marassana. He had been transferred from Kandy National Hospital to Teldeniya Base Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19 and had passed away on April 19. The cause of death is mentioned as Severe<br>COVID Pneumonia in the background of Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Dyslipidaemia and Heart Failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed two more COVID-19 related deaths increasing Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to the virus pandemic to 620. 01.&nbsp;58-year-old female from Mahawa who had been transferred from Galgamuwa Hospital Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital after being identified as Covid-19 positive. She had passed away on April 17 while [&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-113633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113633","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=113633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}