{"id":10210,"date":"2020-12-07T05:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T05:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2020-12-07T05:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T05:21:55","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-covid-19-death-toll-climbs-to-140\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Covid-19 death toll climbs to 140"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more Covid-19 related deaths yesterday, increasing the death toll from the virus in Sri Lanka to 140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the deceased is a 98-year-old male from Kotte who was admitted to the Homagama Base Hospital after being identified as a coronavirus patient. He had passed away yesterday (06) while the cause of death is cited as pneumonia caused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 80-year-old male from Kahathuduwa had passed away at the Homagama Base Hospital on Saturday (05). The cause of death is reported as lung failure along with Covid-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other victim is 71-year-old male from Maggona who also passed away on Saturday (05) while being treated at the ICU of the Homagama Base Hospital. Cause of death is pneumonia caused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more Covid-19 related deaths yesterday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}