{"id":127525,"date":"2020-06-08T02:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=127525"},"modified":"2020-06-08T02:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:02:27","slug":"journalist-succumbs-to-covid-19-in-telangana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/08\/journalist-succumbs-to-covid-19-in-telangana\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist succumbs to Covid-19 in Telangana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HYDERABAD, Jun 7:<\/strong> A 36-year-old journalist working for a Telugu television channel succumbed to Covid-19 at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here on Sunday.<br \/>\nHe was admitted on 4 June after being referred from another state-run hospital.<br \/>\nThe journalist had bilateral pneumonia with Type-1 respiratory failure and acute respiratory disease syndrome when he was admitted, doctors at the hospital said.<br \/>\nHe was also suffering from myasthenia gravis, a long-term neuromuscular disease that leads to varying degrees of skeletal muscle weakness, they said.<br \/>\n&#8220;He was in the ICU and was being attended to by a team of doctors round the clock. I myself also visited him very frequently.?But this morning he had a cardiac arrest, and was declared dead at 9:37 am,&#8221; Gandhi Hospital superintendent Dr M Raja Rao said.<br \/>\nOver the past one week, some journalists have tested positive for the coronavirus in the state and are undergoing treatment. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD, Jun 7: A 36-year-old journalist working for a Telugu television channel succumbed to Covid-19 at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here on Sunday. He was admitted on 4 June after being referred from another state-run hospital. The journalist had bilateral pneumonia with Type-1 respiratory failure and acute respiratory disease syndrome when he was admitted, doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}