{"id":26126,"date":"2020-05-27T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-adviser-to-jk-lt-governor-quarantined-after-his-family-tests-positive\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:40:41","slug":"coronavirus-adviser-to-jk-lt-governor-quarantined-after-his-family-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26126","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Adviser to J&amp;K Lt. Governor quarantined after his family tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>R.R. Bhatnagar\u2019s wife and son tested positive for the infection upon their return from New Delhi to Jammu on Sunday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday re-allocated the portfolios of R.R. Bhatnagar, adviser to Lt. Governor Girish Chandra Murmu, after his family members tested positive for novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A government spokesman said the Lt. Governor assigned to adviser K. K. Sharma all duties and functions of the departments allocated to Mr. Bhatnagar, who is under quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe duties and functions of Mr. Bhatnagar would be discharged by Mr. Sharma till the expiry of the mandatory period of quarantine prescribed by the Health Department,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Bhatnagar was placed under quarantine after his wife and son tested positive for the infection upon their return from New Delhi to Jammu on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBoth are said to be doing fine with no symptoms at all,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said Mr. Bhatnagar\u2019s wife is a doctor in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/coronavirus-adviser-to-jk-lt-governor-quarantined-after-his-family-tests-positive\/article31685324.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.R. Bhatnagar\u2019s wife and son tested positive for the infection upon their return from New Delhi to Jammu on Sunday The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday re-allocated the portfolios of R.R. Bhatnagar, adviser to Lt. Governor Girish Chandra Murmu, after his family members tested positive for novel coronavirus. A government spokesman said the Lt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26126","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\/26126","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=26126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}