{"id":118383,"date":"2021-09-21T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118383"},"modified":"2021-09-21T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:30:15","slug":"sri-lanka-records-66-covid-19-deaths-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/21\/sri-lanka-records-66-covid-19-deaths-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 66 COVID-19 deaths on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The total number of people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 66 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (September 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,284.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 30 males and 36 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 53 deaths were reported among elderly people who are aged above 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, 11 individuals aged between 30-59 years and 02 below 30 years have also succumbed to the virus infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 66 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (September 21). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,284. 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-118383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383","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=118383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}