{"id":328423,"date":"2020-11-07T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328423"},"modified":"2020-11-07T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T08:33:13","slug":"kerala-governor-arif-mohammed-khan-tests-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-governor-arif-mohammed-khan-tests-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan tests COVID-19 positive"},"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-328424 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/arif-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/arif-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/arif-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/arif-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The governor requested those who came in his contact with him to get themselves tested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The official Twitter handle of the Governor read: \u201cI have tested positive for Covid19.But, there is no cause for concern. However, I request all those who had contact with me in NewDelhi last week to test for Covid, or be under observation to be on the safe side.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala has so far over 80,000 active COVID-19 cases with 1640 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With 50,356 fresh cases of the coronavirus and 577 deaths in the past 24 hours, India\u2019s tally stands at 84,62,080, while the death toll rose to 1,25,562, according to Health Ministry data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the total cases, 78,19,886 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. There are 5,16,632 active cases of COVID-19 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. The governor requested those who came in his contact with him to get themselves tested. The official Twitter handle of the Governor read: \u201cI have tested positive for Covid19.But, there is no cause for concern. However, I request all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[13678,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328423"}],"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=328423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328425,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328423\/revisions\/328425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}