{"id":20973,"date":"2020-03-17T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-outbreak-saudi-arabia-returnee-tests-positive-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:36:20","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-saudi-arabia-returnee-tests-positive-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20973","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus outbreak: Saudi Arabia returnee tests positive in Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/coronavirus-outbreak-saudi-arabia-returnee-tests-positive-in-jammu-and-kashmir-1656215-2020-03-16\">India Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>person who had recently traveled to India from Saudi Arabia has tested positive for novel coronavirus. This is the third positive case in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One more case confirmed positive. Travel history to Saudi Arabia. Had reported high viral load earlier. Total 3 positive cases now,&#8221; Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary of Planning Development &amp; Monitoring Department in Jammu and Kashmir administration informed via a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, the administration imposed Section 144 in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Ganderbal district to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District Magistrate Shafqat Iqbal imposed the ban on the assembly of four or more people in any public place and it will remain in place till March-end, according to an order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country rose to 114 on Monday, with Odisha reporting its first COVID-19 patient and a new case each in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Today person who had recently traveled to India from Saudi Arabia has tested positive for novel coronavirus. This is the third positive case in Jammu and Kashmir. &#8220;One more case confirmed positive. Travel history to Saudi Arabia. Had reported high viral load earlier. Total 3 positive cases now,&#8221; Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary of Planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}