{"id":324587,"date":"2020-07-11T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324587"},"modified":"2020-07-11T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:20:56","slug":"amitabh-bachchan-tests-positive-for-covid-19-admitted-to-nanavati-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amitabh-bachchan-tests-positive-for-covid-19-admitted-to-nanavati-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan test positive for COVID-19, admitted to Nanavati hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324594 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01.jpg 885w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01-768x841.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01-696x762.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-005053__01-384x420.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/>Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan have tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. They have been admitted to Mumbai\u2019s Nanavati hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324588 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-696x582.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-1068x893.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200711-230934__01-502x420.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/>Amitabh Bachchan took to his twitter account to share the news, in a tweet he said, &#8220;I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01.jpg 784w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01-696x574.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_20200712-001115__01-509x420.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/>In a tweet Abhishek Bachchan said, &#8220;Earlier today both my father and I tested positive for COVID 19. Both of us having mild symptoms have been admitted to hospital. We have informed all the required authorities and our family and staff are all being tested. I request all to stay calm and not panic. Thank you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan have tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. They have been admitted to Mumbai\u2019s Nanavati hospital. Amitabh Bachchan took to his twitter account to share the news, in a tweet he said, &#8220;I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[3982,12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324587"}],"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=324587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324595,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324587\/revisions\/324595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}