{"id":326565,"date":"2020-09-16T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326565"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:41:32","slug":"union-minister-nitin-gadkari-tests-positive-for-covid-19-isolates-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-nitin-gadkari-tests-positive-for-covid-19-isolates-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Nitin Gadkari tests positive for COVID-19, Isolates himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-is-exploring-new-financial-lending-institutions-to-support-small-scale-units-nitin-gadkari\/gadkari-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-323473\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-323473 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gadkari-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/gadkari-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/gadkari.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, following which he has isolated himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Sharing the information through the microblogging site, Gadkari tweeted, &#8220;Yesterday, I was feeling weak and consulted my Doctor. During the course of my check up, I have been tested COVID 19 positive. I am at present doing well with the blessings and good wishes of all. I have isolated myself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;I request everyone who has come in my contact to be careful and follow the protocol. Stay safe,&#8221; Gadkari said in another tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, following which he has isolated himself. Sharing the information through the microblogging site, Gadkari tweeted, &#8220;Yesterday, I was feeling weak and consulted my Doctor. During the course of my check up, I have been tested COVID 19 positive. I am at present doing well with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":323473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,4027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326566,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions\/326566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}