{"id":325152,"date":"2020-08-02T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325152"},"modified":"2020-08-02T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T13:03:07","slug":"union-home-minister-amit-shah-tests-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-tests-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Amit Shah tests COVID-19 positive"},"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-312242 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-delhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-delhi.jpg 456w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-delhi-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a hospital on the advice of doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOn getting the initial symptoms of coronavirus, I got the test done and the report came back positive. My health is fine, but I am being admitted to the hospital on the advice of doctors,\u201d Shah tweeted\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah also requested those who had come in his contact in the last few days, to isolate themselves and get tested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after his tweet, BJP leaders wished the Home Minister speedy recovery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy in a tweet said, &#8220;I am sorry to hear from news media that Amit Shah has to be admitted to hospital because he has tested positive for Coronavirus. I wish him a speedy recovery and pray for his early discharge.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP chief JP Nadda tweeted saying he is praying for the minister\u2019s speedy recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Coronavirus cases in India have crossed 17 lakh-mark on Sunday with 37,364 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a hospital on the advice of doctors. \u201cOn getting the initial symptoms of coronavirus, I got the test done and the report came back positive. My health is fine, but I am being admitted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1194,12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325152"}],"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=325152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325153,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325152\/revisions\/325153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}