{"id":49579,"date":"2021-12-28T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/sourav-ganguly-admitted-to-hospital-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T04:43:51","slug":"sourav-ganguly-admitted-to-hospital-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49579","title":{"rendered":"Sourav Ganguly admitted to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kolkata, Dec 28: BCCI president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to a city hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, the cricket board sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ganguly is double vaccinated and has been travelling extensively, taking part in all professional activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 49-year-old was rushed to a hospital late on Monday night as a precautionary measure after his RT-PCR test returned positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He was taken to Woodlands Nursing Home last night. He has been given medication and is currently stable,&#8221; a BCCI source, who is keeping track of Ganguly&#8217;s health, told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ganguly was admitted to hospital twice earlier this year and underwent emergency angioplasty after having some cardiac issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His elder brother Snehasish Ganguly had also tested positive for COVID early this year.\u2013(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata, Dec 28: BCCI president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to a city hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, the cricket board sources said on Tuesday. Ganguly is double vaccinated and has been travelling extensively, taking part in all professional activities. The 49-year-old was rushed to a hospital late on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49579","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\/49579","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=49579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}