{"id":10358,"date":"2021-01-17T02:08:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2021-01-17T02:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:08:46","slug":"sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-at-256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-coronavirus-death-toll-at-256\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s coronavirus death toll at 256"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count to 256 cases, the Director-General of Health Services stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased is an 82-year-old woman residing in the Ethulkotte area, the Department of Government Information confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had passed away today (January 16) at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID\/IDH) in Angoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had been transferred there from the Colombo National Hospital upon being identified as a COVID-19 patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of her death has been determined as a heart condition exacerbated due to COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10359,"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-10358","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\/10358","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=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}