{"id":321116,"date":"2020-03-18T05:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321116"},"modified":"2020-03-18T05:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:35:31","slug":"soldier-in-ladakh-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/soldier-in-ladakh-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier in Ladakh tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319524\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319524\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3.jpg 678w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/virus-3-615x420.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Imge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An Indian Army soldier posted in Leh, Ladakh has tested positive for coronavirus and been placed in an isolation ward at a hospital, said Army sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, soldier\u2019s father had a travel history to Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His father had returned from Iran on February 27. The soldier was on casual leave from February 25 to March 1 and was staying with his family when his father arrived. He rejoined duty on March 2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His father was quarantined from February 29 and reported positive for COVID-19 on March 6 and was isolated at Sonam Norbu Memorial (SNM) Hospital,&#8221; said Army sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After his father tested positive,\u00a0the soldier was also quarantined on March 7\u00a0and detected to be positive on\u00a0March 16. He has been\u00a0isolated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The soldier\u2019s sister, wife and children have also been quarantined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of positive coronavirus cases in India rose to 147 on Wednesday, Health Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Army soldier posted in Leh, Ladakh has tested positive for coronavirus and been placed in an isolation ward at a hospital, said Army sources. According to the sources, soldier\u2019s father had a travel history to Iran. His father had returned from Iran on February 27. The soldier was on casual leave from February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[12470,1694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321116"}],"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=321116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321117,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321116\/revisions\/321117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}