{"id":26817,"date":"2020-06-06T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/pakistans-taufeeq-umar-recovers-from-coronavirus-urges-people-to-take-it-seriously\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T07:50:08","slug":"pakistans-taufeeq-umar-recovers-from-coronavirus-urges-people-to-take-it-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26817","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Taufeeq Umar recovers from Coronavirus, urges people to take it seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Islamabad:<\/strong> Former Pakistan opener Taufeeq Umar has safely recovered from COVID-19 and has advised people to take the virus seriously and build up their immune systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umar, who is also a member of the national junior selection committee, contracted the virus two weeks ago and isolated himself at his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Umar said he had made a full recovery from the virus and his test has come negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would urge everyone to take care of themselves and take this Covid-19 seriously. Social distancing and safety measures are a must for everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umar, 38, who appeared in 44 Tests and 22 ODIs, said people should panic if they contract the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI isolated myself in a room for two weeks away from the children and elderly people in my family. I would say people should not be alarmed if they test positive. I would advise them to work on building up their immune system, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least two Pakistani first-class players have died from the coronavirus with leg-spinner Riaz Sheikh passing away in Karachi earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riaz Sheikh, a leg-spinner who took 116 wickets in 43 matches, died at his home and was buried in haste by his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Pakistani first-class player, Zafar Sarfaraz, 50, had died due to the virus in April in Peshawar. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Former Pakistan opener Taufeeq Umar has safely recovered from COVID-19 and has advised people to take the virus seriously and build up their immune systems. Umar, who is also a member of the national junior selection committee, contracted the virus two weeks ago and isolated himself at his home. On Friday, Umar said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26817","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=26817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26817\/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=26817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}