{"id":322296,"date":"2020-04-15T03:02:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322296"},"modified":"2020-04-15T05:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:03:35","slug":"gujarat-congress-mla-imran-khedawala-tests-coronavirus-positive-hours-after-meeting-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-congress-mla-imran-khedawala-tests-coronavirus-positive-hours-after-meeting-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat Congress MLA Imran Khedawala tests coronavirus positive hours after meeting CM"},"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-322297 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imran-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/imran-1.jpg 568w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/imran-1-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/imran-1-483x420.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/>A Gujarat Congress MLA tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday evening after he attended a meeting called by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, said an official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Imran Khedawala, the MLA from the Khadia-Jamalpur seat of Ahmedabad was present in the meeting with Rupani along with some other Congress MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting was also attended by Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, state home minister and principal secretary of health<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the meeting, Khedawala also attended a press conference, where other MLAs and health officials were present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MLA was admitted to SVP hospital in Gandhinagar. The hospital is dedicated to the treatment of COVID-19 patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister and others who came in contact with the MLA is likely to go into self-quarantine as a precautionary measure, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gujarat has so far reported 650 coronavirus cases with 28 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi yesterday announced extension of nationwide lockdown till May 3 to curb the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gujarat Congress MLA tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday evening after he attended a meeting called by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, said an official. Imran Khedawala, the MLA from the Khadia-Jamalpur seat of Ahmedabad was present in the meeting with Rupani along with some other Congress MLAs. The meeting was also attended by Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[12470,593,12926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322296"}],"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=322296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322298,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322296\/revisions\/322298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}