{"id":29497,"date":"2020-07-09T07:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29497"},"modified":"2020-07-09T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T02:10:41","slug":"gujarat-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29497","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat minister tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11624601_Gujarat-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ahmedabad<\/strong>: A Gujarat minister has tested positive for coronavirus, state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The minister has been admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad after he tested positive for coronavirus,&#8221; Patel, who holds charge of the health department, said ahead of the state cabinet meeting in Gandhinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BJP MLA from Valsad district is the first state minister to have contracted the viral infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, a senior Congress leader from Gujarat battling COVID-19 was put on ventilator support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A BJP MLA from Surat and a Congress legislator from Banaskantha district also tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Ahmedabad: A Gujarat minister has tested positive for coronavirus, state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Wednesday. &#8220;The minister has been admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad after he tested positive for coronavirus,&#8221; Patel, who holds charge of the health department, said ahead of the state cabinet meeting in Gandhinagar. The BJP MLA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29497","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\/29497","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=29497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}