{"id":114346,"date":"2021-05-18T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114346"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:05:30","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/18\/sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID death toll crosses 1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s novel coronavirus death toll crossed the grim milestone of 1,000 today (May 18), as the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 34 new victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is reportedly the highest number of fatalities the country registered in a single day following the outbreak of the pandemic last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per official data, Sri Lanka has witnessed as many as 1,015 deaths from the COVID-19 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the deceased is a youth aged 20 years from Ratnapura area who died of acute COVID pneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, a 32-year-old female from Dematagoda area succumbed to COVID pneumonia, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, thrombophilia and hypothyroidism while a 38-year-old female from Ragama area fell victim to acute COVID pneumonia and diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Government Information, the remaining 31 victims were over the age of 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/508381288\/COVID-19-deaths-2021-05-18#from_embed\">COVID-19 deaths 2021-05-18<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/537385388\/Adaderana-Online#from_embed\">Adaderana Online<\/a>&nbsp;on Scribd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s novel coronavirus death toll crossed the grim milestone of 1,000 today (May 18), as the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 34 new victims. This is reportedly the highest number of fatalities the country registered in a single day following the outbreak of the pandemic last year. As per official data, Sri [&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-114346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114346","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=114346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}