{"id":119231,"date":"2021-10-15T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119231"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:54:14","slug":"covid-20-new-deaths-recorded-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/15\/covid-20-new-deaths-recorded-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 20 new deaths recorded in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 20 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (October 14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,449.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest victims include 11 males and 09 females, the Department of Government Information said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official data, 14 deaths were reported among elderly people aged above 60 years. In addition, 05 people aged between 30-59 years and one female below the age of 30 have also succumbed to the virus infection.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 20 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (October 14). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,449. The latest victims include [&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-119231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119231","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=119231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}