{"id":325290,"date":"2020-08-10T11:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325290"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:33:24","slug":"former-president-pranab-mukherjee-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-president-pranab-mukherjee-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Former president Pranab Mukherjee 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-325292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee.jpg 654w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/pranab-mukherjee-559x420.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/>Former president Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that he had tested positive for Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He requested people who came in contact with him in the last one week to get tested for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for Covid-19 today,&#8221; Mukherjee tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I request the people who came in contact with me in the last week, to please self isolate and get tested for Covid-19,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala along with numerous other party leaders wished Mukherjee a speedy recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa\u00a0have been tested COVID-19 positive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that he had tested positive for Covid-19. He requested people who came in contact with him in the last one week to get tested for coronavirus. &#8220;On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for Covid-19 today,&#8221; Mukherjee tweeted. &#8220;I request the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325290"}],"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=325290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325293,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325290\/revisions\/325293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}