{"id":116409,"date":"2021-07-23T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116409"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:53:07","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/23\/sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID death toll crosses 4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 death toll surpassed the grim milestone of 4,000 today (July 23) with 43 more victims confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0da9\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dca\u0da7\u0dcf \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca 61\u0d9a\u0dca \u0daf\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d89\u0dc4\u0dc5\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHLWN_sHaak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official data, new fatalities have moved the total to 4,002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data released by the Department of Government Information showed that the latest victims confirmed today include 26 males and 17 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the victims are 08 people aged between 30-59 years and 35 others aged 60 and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-19 death toll surpassed the grim milestone of 4,000 today (July 23) with 43 more victims confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services. According to official data, new fatalities have moved the total to 4,002. Data released by the Department of Government Information showed that the latest victims confirmed today include [&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-116409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116409","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=116409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}