{"id":324837,"date":"2020-07-20T04:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324837"},"modified":"2020-07-20T04:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T04:16:32","slug":"maharashtra-cabinet-minister-aslam-shaikh-tests-positive-for-covid-19-states-tally-stands-at-310455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-cabinet-minister-aslam-shaikh-tests-positive-for-covid-19-states-tally-stands-at-310455\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra cabinet minister Aslam Shaikh tests positive for COVID-19, state\u2019s tally stands at 3,10,455"},"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-324838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh.jpg 701w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh-696x519.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/aslam-sheikh-563x420.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/>Maharashtra cabinet minister and Congress leader Aslam Shaikh on Monday announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had requested all those who have come in close contact with him to get themselves tested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is to inform that I\u2019ve tested positive for Covid-19. I\u2019m currently asymptomatic and isolating myself. I request all those who have come in close contact with me to get themselves tested. I will continue to work from home to serve the people of my state,&#8221; Shaikh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra is the worst affected state in the country, it has so far registered 3,10,455 COVID-19 cases, with 11,854 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Health Ministry on Sunday said that India\u2019s Case Fatality Rate has fallen below 2.5%.\u00a0\u201cThe Case Fatality Rate is progressively falling and currently, it is 2.49%.\u00a0India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra cabinet minister and Congress leader Aslam Shaikh on Monday announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus. He had requested all those who have come in close contact with him to get themselves tested. &#8220;This is to inform that I\u2019ve tested positive for Covid-19. I\u2019m currently asymptomatic and isolating myself. I request all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[13222,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324837"}],"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=324837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324839,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324837\/revisions\/324839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}