{"id":327962,"date":"2020-10-26T06:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327962"},"modified":"2020-10-26T06:34:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T06:34:29","slug":"maharashtra-deputy-cm-ajit-pawar-tests-positive-for-covid-19-admitted-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-deputy-cm-ajit-pawar-tests-positive-for-covid-19-admitted-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar tests positive for COVID-19, admitted to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/ajit-pawar-gets-clean-chit-in-vidarbha-irrigation-scam\/ajit-pawar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317547\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-317547 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ajit-pawar-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/ajit-pawar-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/ajit-pawar-451x420.jpg 451w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/ajit-pawar.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar on Monday tested positive for COVID-19, he is admitted to Breach Candy Hospital hospital in Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Informing about his health condition, Ajit Pawar in a tweet said, &#8220;My corona test came back positive but I am in good health. As a precautionary measure, I have been admitted to Breach Candy hospital on the advice of the doctor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;I request people of the state, leaders of all political parties in the state, including the Nationalist Congress Party office bearers that there is no reason to worry. I am in good health and after a short rest I will be back to work,&#8221; Pawar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier, former chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis was tested positive for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state by COVID-19 in the country With 1,41,001 total active cases. While 14,60,755 patients have recovered from the disease in the state, 43,264 have died so far.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar on Monday tested positive for COVID-19, he is admitted to Breach Candy Hospital hospital in Mumbai. Informing about his health condition, Ajit Pawar in a tweet said, &#8220;My corona test came back positive but I am in good health. As a precautionary measure, I have been admitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":317547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[12059,12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327962"}],"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=327962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327963,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327962\/revisions\/327963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}