{"id":27198,"date":"2020-06-10T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/28-crpf-personnel-posted-in-kashmir-test-covid-positive\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:46:49","slug":"28-crpf-personnel-posted-in-kashmir-test-covid-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27198","title":{"rendered":"28 CRPF personnel posted in Kashmir test COVID positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11551443_28-CRPF-personnel-posted-in-Kashmir-test-COVID-positive.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong>\u00a0As many as 28 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel posted in Kashmir tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the personnel were found infected during a contact-tracing exercise after the death of a 44-year-old constable on June 6 when he succumbed to the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-eight personnel in Kashmir have tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, the officials said, adding they belong to the 90th battalion of the force where the deceased constable, a nursing assistant, was posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the affected personnel have been isolated and some results are awaited, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The troops have been asked to immediately report if they feel any illness of COVID-19 like symptoms, a senior official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been four deaths in the country&#8217;s largest paramilitary force having 3.25 lakh personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has 516 coronavirus cases till now out of which 353 personnel have recovered, as per latest data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven other positive coronavirus cases were also reported from various other units of the force on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Srinagar:\u00a0As many as 28 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel posted in Kashmir tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, officials said. They said the personnel were found infected during a contact-tracing exercise after the death of a 44-year-old constable on June 6 when he succumbed to the disease. Twenty-eight personnel in Kashmir have tested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27198","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\/27198","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=27198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/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=27198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}