{"id":118917,"date":"2021-10-06T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118917"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:27:07","slug":"covid-death-toll-moves-up-with-43-new-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/06\/covid-death-toll-moves-up-with-43-new-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID death toll moves up with 43 new victims"},"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 43 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (Oct. 05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 23 males and 20 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 36 deaths were reported among elderly people aged above 60 years. In addition, 07 people aged between 30-59 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 43 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (Oct. 05). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,185. According to 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-118917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118917","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=118917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}