{"id":330119,"date":"2021-01-08T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330119"},"modified":"2021-01-08T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:52:29","slug":"total-number-of-cases-infected-with-new-coronavirus-strain-stands-at-82-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/total-number-of-cases-infected-with-new-coronavirus-strain-stands-at-82-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Total number of cases infected with new coronavirus strain stands at 82: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329791 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mutant-coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/mutant-coronavirus.jpg 564w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/mutant-coronavirus-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/>The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant has risen to 82 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of cases infected with the new strain of the novel Coronavirus, first reported in the UK, now stands at 82, the health ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll of them have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective State Governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others,\u201d the Ministry earlier said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the States for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing &amp; dispatch of samples to INSACOG labs, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant has risen to 82 in India. The total number of cases infected with the new strain of the novel Coronavirus, first reported in the UK, now stands at 82, the health ministry said on Friday. \u201cAll of them have been kept in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330119"}],"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=330119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330121,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330119\/revisions\/330121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}