{"id":321850,"date":"2020-04-03T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321850"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:59:56","slug":"647-coronavirus-cases-in-last-two-days-linked-to-tablighi-jamaat-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/647-coronavirus-cases-in-last-two-days-linked-to-tablighi-jamaat-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"647 coronavirus cases in last two days linked to Tablighi Jamaat: Health Ministry"},"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-321750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1.jpg 886w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/24a-1-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/>At least 647 coronavirus positive cases recorded in the last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in Delhi&#8217;s Nizamuddin area, Union Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;647 confirmed coronavirus cases found in 48 hours are linked to\u00a0Tablighi Jamaat congregation,&#8221; said Lav Agarwal, a Health Ministry Joint Secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These cases have been reported from 14 states\/ Union Territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Agarwal said total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country are 2301 and 56 people have lost their lives due to infection<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">157 patients have recovered\/cured, the ministry confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the same briefing, Punya Salila Srivastava, joint secretary in the Home Ministry said that the states have been asked to take strict action in cases of security incidents on healthcare professionals and frontline workers, and to ensure safety of medical fraternity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 647 coronavirus positive cases recorded in the last two days are linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in Delhi&#8217;s Nizamuddin area, Union Health Ministry said on Friday. &#8220;647 confirmed coronavirus cases found in 48 hours are linked to\u00a0Tablighi Jamaat congregation,&#8221; said Lav Agarwal, a Health Ministry Joint Secretary. These cases have been reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,12764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321850"}],"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=321850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321851,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321850\/revisions\/321851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}