{"id":321819,"date":"2020-04-02T05:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321819"},"modified":"2020-04-02T05:14:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T05:14:48","slug":"padma-shri-recipient-bhai-nirmal-singh-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/padma-shri-recipient-bhai-nirmal-singh-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Padma Shri recipient Bhai Nirmal Singh dies after testing positive for coronavirus"},"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-321820 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nirmal-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/nirmal-singh.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/nirmal-singh-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/nirmal-singh-500x420.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/>Padma Shri recipient and former Hazoori Ragi of the Golden Temple, Nirmal Singh Khalsa passed away on Thursday morning, a day after he was diagnosed with coronavirus disease (Covid-19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He died of cardiac arrest at around 4:30 am in Amritsar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh had recently returned from abroad and was admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH) after he complained of breathlessness and dizziness on March 30, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, police have sealed the area around Singh&#8217;s residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh was put on ventilator last night after his condition worsened due to his bronchial asthma, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His family members and relatives who were with him have been isolated at a hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karan Bir Singh Sidhu, Special Chief Secretary of Punjab Disaster Management confirmed the news in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBhai Nirmal Singh Passes Away \u2013 Former \u2018Hazoori Raagi\u2019 at Sri Harmandir Sahib, Bhai Nirmal Singh ji Khalsa has passed away during the ambrosial moments of Amrit vela around 4:30 AM today. Bhai Nirmal Singh had tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday,\u201d he tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padma Shri recipient and former Hazoori Ragi of the Golden Temple, Nirmal Singh Khalsa passed away on Thursday morning, a day after he was diagnosed with coronavirus disease (Covid-19). He died of cardiac arrest at around 4:30 am in Amritsar. Singh had recently returned from abroad and was admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[12470,12851,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321819"}],"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=321819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321821,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321819\/revisions\/321821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}