{"id":326964,"date":"2020-09-29T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326964"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:06:53","slug":"delhi-deputy-cm-manish-sisodia-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-discharged-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-deputy-cm-manish-sisodia-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-discharged-from-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia tests negative for coronavirus, discharged from hospital"},"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-326965 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/manish-sisodia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/manish-sisodia-1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/manish-sisodia-1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/manish-sisodia-1-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was suffering from COVID-19 and dengue has been discharged from hospital after testing negative on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sisodia was admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital for treatment on September 23 after complaints of fever and breathing difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Deputy CM was diagnosed with dengue a day later and was then moved to Max hospital in Delhi&#8217;s Saket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was administered plasma therapy, owing to his &#8220;falling&#8221; blood platelet count and low oxygen level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 48-year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)\u00a0leader had tested positive for the virus on September 14. After testing positive, Sisodia confirmed the news in a tweet and said, \u201cAfter having a mild fever, I got my COVID test conducted and the report came positive. I have kept myself in isolation. Right now there is no fever or any other problem, I am completely fine. Soon after getting all your blessings, I will return to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sisodia is the second minister in Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s government to contract coronavirus infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier Health Minister Satyendar Jain had tested COVID-19 positive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was suffering from COVID-19 and dengue has been discharged from hospital after testing negative on Tuesday. Sisodia was admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital for treatment on September 23 after complaints of fever and breathing difficulties. The Deputy CM was diagnosed with dengue a day later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[12470,2441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326964"}],"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=326964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326966,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326964\/revisions\/326966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}