{"id":322004,"date":"2020-04-10T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322004"},"modified":"2020-04-10T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T03:02:22","slug":"assam-records-first-coronavirus-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assam-records-first-coronavirus-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam records first coronavirus death"},"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-304184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1068x534.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Assam has recorded its first COVID-19 death on Friday with a 65-year-old man passing away in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The man hailing from Hailakandi district breathed his last at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">State\u2019s health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet said, \u201cWith utmost Grief and sorrow,I would like to inform that Sri Faijul Haque Barbhyan,(65)Hailakandi District has expired few minutes back in SMCH due to complication of COVID19 infection.My deep condolences and prayers for the bereaved family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the deceased had travelled to Saudi Arabia recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So far, Assam has reported 29 COVID-19 positive cases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam has recorded its first COVID-19 death on Friday with a 65-year-old man passing away in the state. The man hailing from Hailakandi district breathed his last at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital in Assam. State\u2019s health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet said, \u201cWith utmost Grief and sorrow,I would like to inform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322004"}],"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=322004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322005,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322004\/revisions\/322005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}