{"id":117623,"date":"2021-08-30T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117623"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:16:23","slug":"coronavirus-highest-daily-fatality-count-recorded-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/30\/coronavirus-highest-daily-fatality-count-recorded-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Highest daily fatality count recorded on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka has registered 216 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Sunday (August 29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 115 males and 101 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the victims are aged below 30 years while 41 of them are aged between 30-59 years and 170 others are aged 60 and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 216 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Sunday (August 29). This marks the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,991. According to the [&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-117623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117623","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=117623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}