{"id":135672,"date":"2020-08-27T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=135672"},"modified":"2020-08-27T02:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:16:30","slug":"ex-assam-cm-tarun-gogoi-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/ex-assam-cm-tarun-gogoi-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Assam CM Tarun Gogoi tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, Aug 26:<\/strong> Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said on Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The veteran Congress leader urged all those who came in contact with him recently to get tested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have been tested Covid-19 positive yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People who came in contact with me during the last few days, should go for Covid test immediately,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His wife Dolly Gogoi has tested negative, party sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors have advised the 85-year-old politician to stay in home isolation, a party spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wished Gogoi a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarma, who was a senior minister in Gogoi&#8217;s cabinet before joining the BJP, said that a team of doctors has been kept ready to provide the best medical care to the senior politician.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gogoi, who represents the Titabor assembly constituency in Jorhat district, is the 13th Assam legislator to be diagnosed with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His former cabinet colleague Ajanta Neog, the MLA from Golaghat, tested Covid-positive on Tuesday and was admitted to the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another former Congress minister and legislator from Samaguri constituency in Nagaon, Rakibul Hussain, and his wife had earlier tested Covid-positive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the 13 legislators who have been diagnosed with Covid-19, seven are from the BJP, three from the Congress, two from the AGP and one from the AIUDF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BJP&#8217;s Rajya Sabha MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa tested positive on Saturday and has been admitted to the Jorhat Medical College and Hospital. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, Aug 26: Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said on Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The veteran Congress leader urged all those who came in contact with him recently to get tested. &#8220;I have been tested Covid-19 positive yesterday. People who came in contact with me during the last few days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135672","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=135672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}