{"id":322551,"date":"2020-04-24T03:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322551"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:01:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:01:55","slug":"maharashtra-minister-jitendra-awhad-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-minister-jitendra-awhad-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Minister Jitendra Awhad tests 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-322555 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jitendra-awhad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/jitendra-awhad.jpg 470w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/jitendra-awhad-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad has tested COVID-19 positive, official sources said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Awhad, along with 15 of his family members had been in home quarantine for more than a week after one of his security personnel tested positive for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Minister had taken a COVID-19 test earlier on April 13 but had tested negative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is suspected that Awhad came in contact with the virus after meeting a police officer earlier this month, who later tested positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minister has now been admitted to a hospital and his treatment has begun, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has highest COVID-19 cases \u2013 6,430 with 283 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad has tested COVID-19 positive, official sources said on Friday. Awhad, along with 15 of his family members had been in home quarantine for more than a week after one of his security personnel tested positive for coronavirus. The Minister had taken a COVID-19 test earlier on April 13 but had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[12750,12960,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322551"}],"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=322551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322551\/revisions\/322556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}