{"id":319314,"date":"2020-01-27T03:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319314"},"modified":"2020-01-27T03:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:55:14","slug":"suspected-case-of-coronavirus-reaches-rajasthan-patient-kept-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/suspected-case-of-coronavirus-reaches-rajasthan-patient-kept-in-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected case of coronavirus reaches Rajasthan; patient kept in isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus.jpg 481w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/>Rajasthan has reported a suspected case of coronavirus, following which the state Health Minister Raghu Sharma has directed that the patient be kept in isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma said a patient who returned to India after completing the MBBS course in China, was kept in isolation at the SMS Hospital on the suspicion of being affected by coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also directed to conduct a screening of all the family members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Minister, in an official statement said a blood sample of the patient was sent to Pune\u2019s National Virology Laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll due to the coronavirus has risen to 80 in China, while more than 2000 people are now infected, sources said<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan has reported a suspected case of coronavirus, following which the state Health Minister Raghu Sharma has directed that the patient be kept in isolation. Sharma said a patient who returned to India after completing the MBBS course in China, was kept in isolation at the SMS Hospital on the suspicion of being affected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[12470,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319315,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319314\/revisions\/319315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}