{"id":118547,"date":"2021-09-25T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T23:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118547"},"modified":"2021-09-25T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T23:38:05","slug":"sri-lanka-records-79-new-covid-related-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/25\/sri-lanka-records-79-new-covid-related-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 79 new COVID-related fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 79 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (Sep. 24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,609.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 41 males and 38 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 57 deaths were reported among the elderly people aged above 60 years. In addition, 22 individuals aged between 30-59 years have also fallen victim to the virus infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 79 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (Sep. 24). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,609. According to the data [&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-118547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118547","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=118547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}