{"id":25987,"date":"2020-05-24T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/veteran-actor-kiran-kumar-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:45:54","slug":"veteran-actor-kiran-kumar-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25987","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Kiran Kumar tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Kiran Kumar went to the hospital for a medical check-up on May 14, where the Covid-19 test was mandatory. His test result came out positive. The actor is asymptomatic and is home-quarantining.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/amp\/movies\/celebrities\/story\/veteran-actor-kiran-kumar-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-1681306-2020-05-24\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran film and TV actor Kiran Kumar has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently under home quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 74-year-old actor said he is asymptomatic and is doing &#8220;absolutely fine&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am asymptomatic. On May 14, I went to the hospital for a medical check-up, where the Covid-19 test was mandatory. So I got myself tested and the result was positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But I had no symptoms then, nor do I have any now. There&#8217;s no fever, no cough, I&#8217;m fine and have self quarantined at home,&#8221; Kumar told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actor, who had featured in films like Dhadkan, Mujhse Dosti Karoge, among others, said it has been ten days since the test happened and he still hasn&#8217;t developed any symptoms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My family lives on the second floor of the building and I&#8217;m currently on the third floor. On May 26 or May 27, I am going to get my second test done. At the moment I&#8217;m absolutely fine,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Saturday, Maharashtra recorded total 47,190 coronavirus cases, with 1,577 death toll, according to the state health department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiran Kumar went to the hospital for a medical check-up on May 14, where the Covid-19 test was mandatory. His test result came out positive. The actor is asymptomatic and is home-quarantining. PTI Veteran film and TV actor Kiran Kumar has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently under home quarantine. The 74-year-old actor said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987","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=25987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}