{"id":115326,"date":"2021-06-18T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115326"},"modified":"2021-06-18T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:20:11","slug":"sri-lanka-records-55-new-covid-related-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/18\/sri-lanka-records-55-new-covid-related-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 55 new COVID-related fatalities"},"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 55 more COVID-19 related fatalities, according to the Government Information Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development brings the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 2,480.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the victims &#8211; 23 females and 32 males &#8211; have succumbed to the virus infection on Thursday (June 17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the statistics released by the department, 13 are between 30-59 years and the rest of the victims are aged 60 years and above.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 55 more COVID-19 related fatalities, according to the Government Information Department. The new development brings the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 2,480. Reportedly, the victims &#8211; 23 females and 32 males &#8211; have succumbed to the virus infection on [&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-115326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115326","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=115326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}