{"id":117392,"date":"2021-08-23T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117392"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:27:07","slug":"sri-lanka-moves-up-to-13th-place-in-global-covid-death-rankings-just-below-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/23\/sri-lanka-moves-up-to-13th-place-in-global-covid-death-rankings-just-below-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka moves up to 13th place in global COVID death rankings, just below US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has moved up to the 13th position in the rankings of the global COVID-19 fatalities that occur daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka on March 11, 2020, the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases was recorded yesterday (August 22); that was with 4,304 new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was also the first time the number of COVID-19 infections reported within a day exceeded 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed yesterday that another 183 COVID-19 deaths had been reported on August 21. Sri Lanka today (August 23) confirmed 194 coronavirus deaths that were reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the \u2018worldometer\u2019 website reports that Sri Lanka has risen to the 13th position in the world in terms of daily COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 12th position is the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past 24 hours, only 198 coronavirus deaths have been reported in the United States, despite having a population of 3.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This clearly indicates the severity of the pandemic situation in Sri Lanka, where there is only a population of 21.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has moved up to the 13th position in the rankings of the global COVID-19 fatalities that occur daily. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka on March 11, 2020, the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases was recorded yesterday (August 22); that was with 4,304 new cases. [&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-117392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117392","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=117392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}