{"id":11266,"date":"2021-09-24T05:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2021-09-24T05:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:04:59","slug":"sri-lanka-records-72-new-covid-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-records-72-new-covid-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka records 72 new COVID-related deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 72 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Wednesday (Sep. 22).<\/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 12,448.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 42 males and 30 females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many as 60 deaths were reported among the elderly people aged above 60 years. In addition, 12 individuals aged between 30-59 years have also succumbed to the virus infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11267,"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-11266","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\/11266","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=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}