{"id":328953,"date":"2020-11-26T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328953"},"modified":"2020-11-26T06:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:08:01","slug":"delhi-environment-minister-gopal-rai-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-environment-minister-gopal-rai-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai tests positive for\u00a0coronavirus"},"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-328954 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gopal-rai-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/gopal-rai-1.jpg 457w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/gopal-rai-1-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday morning said that he has tested positive for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gopal Rai said he had initial symptoms after which he got himself tested for the viral infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe coronavirus report has come positive,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAfter initial symptoms, a corona test was done and the report showed that I have tested positive. Those who came in contact with me in the last few days, please take care of themselves and to get tested,\u201d Gopal Rai tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rai is the third minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government to have tested positive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain had been infected with the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday morning said that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Gopal Rai said he had initial symptoms after which he got himself tested for the viral infection. \u201cThe coronavirus report has come positive,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter initial symptoms, a corona test was done and the report showed that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,2439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328953"}],"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=328953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328955,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328953\/revisions\/328955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}