{"id":324927,"date":"2020-07-25T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324927"},"modified":"2020-07-25T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:28:58","slug":"madhya-pradesh-cm-shivraj-singh-chouhan-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madhya-pradesh-cm-shivraj-singh-chouhan-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan tests positive for COVID-19"},"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-304841 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/shivraj-singh-chauhan-561x420.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy dear countrymen, I was having symptoms of COVID-19 and, after the test, my report came back positive. I appeal to all my colleagues that whoever has come in contact with me, get their corona test done. And my close contacts should go into quarantine,\u201d Shivraj tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf COVID-19 is treated on time, then a person is completely cured. I have been reviewing the status of corona infection every evening since March 25. I will try to review corona with video conferencing as much as possible now,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his absence, the chief minister said, Home Minister Narottam Mishra, urban development and administration minister Bhuppendra Singh, Health Minister Vishvas Sarang and others would lead the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Madhya Pradesh has so far reported 26,210 COVID-19 cases and 791 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. \u201cMy dear countrymen, I was having symptoms of COVID-19 and, after the test, my report came back positive. I appeal to all my colleagues that whoever has come in contact with me, get their corona test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,2014,2026],"tags":[12750,1043,4610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324927"}],"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=324927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324928,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324927\/revisions\/324928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}