{"id":26668,"date":"2020-06-04T07:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/defence-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-19-sources\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T07:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:03:04","slug":"defence-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-19-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26668","title":{"rendered":"Defence secretary tests positive for COVID-19: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/11532821_Defence-secretary-tests-positive-for-COVID-19--Sources.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> India&#8217;s Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, following which the defence ministry carried out a massive contact-tracing exercise, official sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kumar&#8217;s condition is stable and he is currently under home-quarantine, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 35 officials working at the ministry&#8217;s headquarters in South Block in the Raisina Hills have been sent on home quarantine after reports of Kumar testing positive for the infection emerged on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no official comment on Kumar&#8217;s health condition. The defence ministry spokesperson refused to comment on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is learnt that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh did not attend office as part of a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The offices of the defence minister, the defence secretary, the Army Chief and the Navy Chief are on the first floor of the South Block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sources said all laid down protocols on contact-tracing and quarantining of people are being scrupulously followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi: India&#8217;s Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, following which the defence ministry carried out a massive contact-tracing exercise, official sources said. Kumar&#8217;s condition is stable and he is currently under home-quarantine, they said. At least 35 officials working at the ministry&#8217;s headquarters in South Block in the Raisina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26668","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\/26668","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=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}