{"id":118700,"date":"2021-09-29T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118700"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:21:31","slug":"sri-lanka-records-61-new-covid-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/29\/sri-lanka-records-61-new-covid-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 61 new COVID-related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As the daily count of deaths from COVID-19 infection&nbsp;continues to drop below 100 in Sri Lanka, only 61 fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (Sep. 29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Government Information, 25 males and 36 females have succumbed to the novel coronavirus in the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new victims include 14 people aged between 30 &#8211; 59 years and 47 others aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the latest development, Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID-related death toll now stands at 12,847.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana As the daily count of deaths from COVID-19 infection&nbsp;continues to drop below 100 in Sri Lanka, only 61 fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (Sep. 29). According to the Department of Government Information, 25 males and 36 females have succumbed to the novel coronavirus in the recent past. [&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-118700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118700","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=118700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}