{"id":328058,"date":"2020-10-28T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328058"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:26:31","slug":"union-minister-smriti-irani-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-smriti-irani-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Smriti Irani tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-smriti-irani-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/smriti-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328059\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328059 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smriti-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/smriti-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/smriti-622x420.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/smriti.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a>Union Minister for Textiles and Women &amp; Child Development Smriti Irani on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Informing about her health condition, Smriti in a tweet said, &#8220;It is rare for me to search for words while making an announcement; hence here\u2019s me keeping it simple \u2014 I\u2019ve tested positive for #COVID and would request those who came in contact with me to get themselves tested at the earliest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Smriti Irani had been participating in election rallies in Bihar for past few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On October 27, Smriti addressed a rally in Bihar&#8217;s Gopalganj and Kalyanpur. Whereas, she addressed a rally in Bodh Gaya on September 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier on October 27,\u00a0Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Ramdas Athawale tested positive for COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Textiles and Women &amp; Child Development Smriti Irani on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19. Informing about her health condition, Smriti in a tweet said, &#8220;It is rare for me to search for words while making an announcement; hence here\u2019s me keeping it simple \u2014 I\u2019ve tested positive for #COVID and would request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[12750,1525],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328058"}],"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=328058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328061,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328058\/revisions\/328061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}