{"id":11135,"date":"2021-08-07T20:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11135"},"modified":"2021-08-07T20:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:58:03","slug":"sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-grim-milestone-of-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-covid-death-toll-crosses-grim-milestone-of-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s COVID death toll crosses grim milestone of 5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total lives claimed by the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand over 5,000 as 98 new victims were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (August 06).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 47 males and 51 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many as 78 deaths have been reported among the elderly people who are aged above 60 years. In addition, 20 people aged between 30-59 years have also succumbed to the virus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 5,017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total lives claimed by the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand over 5,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11136,"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-11135","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\/11135","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=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11137,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions\/11137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}